Innovation awards results 2017

The awards commemorate our colleague Sally, the former Head of Knowledge Management and E-learning at NHS South West, who died in 2010. Sally led
on many innovative national developments and was a great supporter of developing library services to their fullest potential.

What we looked for in the 2017 Sally Hernando Innovation Awards

Innovation can be regarded as a “novel” way of providing a service or a completely new product which has not been seen before in NHS library/knowledge services. While the adoption of ideas from elsewhere in NHS and Healthcare LKS is admirable and to be encouraged, for the purposes of these innovation awards we are interested in new ideas rather than local adoption of best practice from elsewhere within NHS KLS.

We were especially interested in innovations which:

• Have been implemented and evaluated in terms of success and impact
• Are easily replicated or adapted for use in other Library and Knowledge Services
• Offer “quick wins” in terms of investment of time, finances and other resources
• Have a broad appeal and address a widespread need or requirement 

The applications process

1. Service managers and KLS staff are asked to identify examples of innovation within their service.
2. An innovation template is available on the Knowledge for Healthcare Blog.  This is submitted electronically.
3. A small panel assesses all entries to determine if they constitute innovations according to the criteria set down in the guidance provided on the blog.
4. A panel of judges made up of KLS staff from across the NHS in England assess all entries except the ones from their own region.
5. The judges select their top five entries and submit these with comments via a survey tool.
6. A member of the HEE KLSL teams collates the responses to identify the top ten. 
7. The top ten are sent to an external assessor (Maria J Grant in 2017) to select a top three to receive the innovation award prizes

The top three winners in 2017 receive a funded place at Health Libraries Group (or equivalent) conference to promote their innovations

Top 3 award winners 2017

1. Multi-disciplinary clinical innovations database @RBHT. Submitted by Samantha Unamboowe, Library Manager, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
2. The online research @ Derby archive (ORDA). Submitted by Beth Rawson, Deputy Knowledge and Library Service Manager, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 
3. 30 day research support challenge. Submitted by Angela Young, Information Skills Trainer, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Top 10 runner-up entries 2017

• Awards bulletin. Submitted by Susan Smith, Senior Librarian, a collaboration with Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• Challenging prejudice in healthcare - the Human Library. Submitted by Paula Elliott, Library Manager, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.
• Bringing people together in memories: delivering community reminiscence events for people living with dementia. Submitted by Victoria Treadway, Library and Knowledge Service Lead, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. 
• Creating a health and wellbeing room in the library. Submitted by Tracey Pratchett, Knowledge and Library Services Manager, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 
• Facilitating research amongst radiographers through information literact workshops. Submitted by Emily Hurt, Clinical Librarian, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• Action plan style annual report. Submitted by Alan Fricker, Head of NHS Partnership and Liaison, King's College London working with Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. 
• Lendable Laptops to reduce site-wide subscription costs. Submitted by John Barbrook, Head of Library and Learning Resources, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital. 

Additional entries assessed as innovations in 2017

(listed in alphabetical order by organisation name)

• Many roads to wellbeing: a reading collection. Submitted by Anita Phul, Training Librarian, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

• Using medical and health information mobile device apps. Submitted by Derick Yates, Evidence Based Practice Tutor, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust 

• Health information support to cardiology patients. Submitted by Uma Devalapalli, Library and Knowledge Services Manager, Chelsea Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. 

• Therapeutic iPads. Kal Dhanda, Library Manager, Dudley and Walsall Mental Health NHS Partnership Trust.

• NMC Revalidation Library Training Session. Submitted by Lisa Riddington, Library Services Manager, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Library.

• Mediated table of contents current awareness service for Healthcare Assistants. Submitted by Lisa Riddington, Library Service Manager, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Library. 

• Learning is serious fun: health related board games collection at Newcomb Library. Submitted by Heather Mills, Assistant Librarian, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

• Public health resource centre promotional films. Submitted by Rebecca Vāānānen, Public Health Resource Manager, Leeds City Council, Adults and Health Directorate. 

• Chromecast display boards. Submitted by John Barbrook, Head of Library and Learning Resources, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital. 

• iPad lending project. Submitted by John Barbrook, Head of Library and Learning Resources, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital. 

• Public health practice examples pilot project. Submitted by Wendy Marsh, Senior Knowledge and Evidence Manager, Public Health England. 

• Core staffed hours. Submitted by Tricia Rey, Library Services Manager, Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. 

• UCL discovery plus - an open access repository for UCL's associated NHS Trusts. Submitted by Betsy Anagnostelis and Angela Young, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. 

• Library OmniSearch. Submitted by Jason Curtis, Site Librarian, Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries.

• Smart Library Cards. Submited by Lisa Basini, Librarian, South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

• Growing our own librarians. Submitted by Rachel Cooke, Head of Library Services & Knowledge Management, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

• Forget me not times- improving patient experience. Submitted by Helen Kiely, Knowledge Services Assistant, Warrington & Halton NHS Foundation Trust.

• The Can-do cafe. Submitted by Laura Wilkes, Information and Knowledge Services Manager, West Suffolk Foundation Trust Hospital.

• Setting up and facilitating a reading group on an elderly functional psychiatric ward. Submitted by David Chamberlain Lead Librarian (Service Development), Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. 

• Reading to patients. Submitted by David Chamberlain Lead Librarian (Service Development), Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.