Our Impact
UHD KLS helps to ensure that decisions are based upon the best available evidence. We can support you to:
- Improve the quality of care you provide
- Improve patient outcomes
- Have more time for patient care
- Save money
- Facilitate decision making
- Enable change and innovation
- Improve understanding and knowledge
Have we made an Impact to you?
Did you have a work-based challenge you were facing, that we helped you with? Did we complete a literature search for you, provide you with some training or do you receive our current awareness bulletins?
How did the service you receive from us impact or contribute to your work? What difference did it make? What do you do differently now?
If we have helped you with your work or study, we would like to hear from you! Please email us or click the button below to tell us more.
Or email library@uhd.nhs.uk.
Impact Case Studies
Impact case studies help us to share best practice and learnings from our colleagues that we have supported with our services.
Our case studies below illustrate the work we have carried out to support our colleagues at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Trust and Dorset HealthCare NHS Trust.
Literature Searches used to support an ‘Adaptation of Therapy for Psychosis and Mindfulness Based Interventions for Psychosis’ Project at Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust.
Support provided to the Acute Therapy Journal Club at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.
Literature Search used to support the creation of a training day for Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust clinicians to deliver diagnoses sensitively to Dementia patients.
Supporting a Senior Physiotherapist at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust with their Continuing Professional Development.
Health Literacy training for the communications department at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.
Supporting the ‘UHD Cultural Celebration 2023’ event with literature searches, a quiz, and an after-action review at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.
Support provided to a UHD employee with a job interview by sourcing books and articles from a reference list.
Assistance with conducting a systematic review and gaining full text articles about the psychometric properties of outcome measures in haemophilia.