Libraries & the NHS - Peter Hill Review - Tooke Review - Darzi Review

   Report of a National Review of NHS Health Library Services in England: From knowledge to health in the 21st Century. , Peter Hill Review, March 2007
This Review has highlighted the centrality of library, knowledge and information services within the NHS and describes four key purposes for library and knowledge service:

Clinical decision making by patients, their [...]

Meeting Needs? The offenders learning and skills service

   Meeting Needs? The offenders learning and skills service, National Audit Office, March 2008
“Ensuring offenders have the underpinning skills for life (literacy, language, numeracy and basic IT skills), and have developed work skills, to enable them to meet the real needs of employers in the area where they live or will settle after their sentence [...]

Helping people through mental health crisis

Helping people through mental health crisis: The role of Crisis Resolution and
Home Treatment services from the National Audit Office, December 2007
Crisis Resolution Home Treatment teams are having a positive impact on local acute mental health services, providing an alternative to hospital admission for people experiencing a short-term mental health crisis.
Only three regions achieved the Department’s estimate [...]