What are they?

Impact case studies help share best practice and learnings from across the NHS.

Health librarians and knowledge specialists, working closely with staff and organisations within the NHS and wider health sector, bring tangible benefits, including:

• savings in time
• costs
• better operational efficiency

Case studies can be used to effectively capture and summarise the outcome of interviews.

The information can be used for advocacy, marketing and promotion of knowledge and library services.

Impact case studies database

The impact case study database may be found on FutureNHS.  This is the place to share your case studies and demonstrate the contribution of NHS knowledge and library services to healthcare across the system.

You will need to register for FutureNHS and join the Knowledge and Library Services Impact Case Studies workspace.

Examples of our impact

Impact case studies database - a collection of good impact case studies submitted by KLS.

Vignettes showcase impact case studies. Combining visual imagery and text, they highlight the importance of your service and its impact on your organisation and/or the wider NHS.

Screening for Social Determinants of Health in the Paediatric Setting

To support the Paediatrics Outpatient department to  understand how social factors, such as; housing, employment, deprivation status, correlate to health-related behaviours, the librarian conducted an evidence search of existing surveillance tools.

It informed the development of a pilot project’s screening tool, which evidenced a clear association between the wider determinants of health and behaviours,for example, 70% of families in receipt of free school meals smoked or vaped. The insights will support the future work of the Trust’s Tobacco Working Group. 

Contact the Knowledge for Healthcare team on [email protected] for any of the vignettes in an accessible format.

Create your own vignette by downloading the template in the documents and templates section.