Hi all,
A very BIG "thank you" to everyone who responded to my request for information. I got 23 responses - which was great esp. for this time of year. We got responses from practically all over England, maybe not every Trust but pretty good coverage. - Lancashire; Merseyside; London; Shropshire; Essex; Norfolk,Suffolk& Cambs; Sussex; Kent; Surrey; Avon & Wiltshire; Dorset; Hampshire; West Midlands; Northamptonshire; Leeds. I even got a message from the University of Miami.
I have already followed up one or two of these with telephone conversations and will be talking to some of the others as well once my colleagues & I have analysed the information you have supplied. What clearly comes through is that there are the usual problems of resources, access, funding, awareness, skills, time, etc. but the successful services are the ones which have had recognition and financial input from the Trusts involved and where the funding model has been a wider one than the individual trusts themselves, e.g SHA-wide or even an integrated service over a wide geographical area / several SHAs.
So thank you once again. If there are any of you out there who were maybe away on holiday & have not responded and might have useful information, do please get in touch. My original query is below this message.
Many thanks.
Roshanara
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roshanara Nair
> Sent: 19 July 2005 11:54
> To: lis-medical (E-mail)
> Subject: Library services for mental health
>
> Hi all
>
> In the northwest, and specifically in the Greater Manchester area, we are looking at the library & information services provision for mental health trusts. The picture that is emerging seems to range from "What services?" to excellent, proactive, professionally staffed and run, Helicon accredited services specifically for particular care trusts.
>
> We would like to find out what the provision is like in other areas and wonder if members of the list could give us some information about the services you might be providing. The kind of things we are looking at are:
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> Which mental health trusts have their own library services?
> Which mental health trusts don> '> t have library services?
> Which mental health trusts buy into other library services via service level agreements?
> Which mental health trusts receive informal / unofficial / unrecorded (!?) services from other library services?
> What evidence is there to support the need for libraries in mental health services?
> Would any services be able / willing to share statistics, experiences, anecdotes, etc.?
>
> Many thanks. Hoping to be inundated with replies (even at this time of year)!
>
> Roshanara
>
>
> Roshanara Nair
> Partnerships Manager
> NW Health Care Libraries Unit
>
> 079 7971 1982
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