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 on 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 uhd.library@nhs.net
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.
- All
- CPD and Learning
- Staff Support
- Patient Care
- Improvement
Research for mindfulness scoping review
Supporting with literature searching for staff research activity and mindfulness service development.
August 2026
Supporting the Dorset Opportunities in Research Network (DORN+)
Supporting a network of healthcare professionals across Dorset with access to research information and opportunities.
August 2026
Neurotherapy Journal Club
Support with learning, training and a regular journal club for a Physiotherapy team.
July 2026
Resident Doctors Journal Club
Regular literature search support for a journal club.
July 2026
Library spaces for learning
Ensuring provision and access to learning space for a user studying for a qualification.
July 2026
Supporting Psychiatrist CPD and patient care
Book loans and knowledge resources access for a user with a patient care challenge.
July 2026
Literature review support
Providing literature review support and helping with academic skills for a nursing student.
June 2026
Business case for staff retention
A literature search to support a business case on the value of tea breaks for staff wellbeing, recruitment and retention.
March 2025
Journal Club
Supporting and facilitating Dorset Healthcare NTQ directorate Journal Club.
July 2025
Dorset Healthcare Post-Covid Syndrome Service MDT meetings
Supporting MDT meetings with evidence and knowledge resources provision.
July 2025
Patient Peer Support Group
Supporting patients with Information Literacy.
July 2025
Evidence search for program development
A literature search to support the development of a mindfulness program for patients with psychotic disorders.
September 2023
Acute Therapy Journal Club
Facilitating a journal club and supporting CPD for the Acute Therapy teams.
October 2023
Dementia training literature search
Searching for literature and evidence to support the creation of a training day for clinicians to learn more about how to deliver dementia diagnoses sensitively.
September 2023
Supporting colleague CPD
Helping a Senior Physiotherapist with their continuing professional development.
October 2023
Health Literacy training
Delivering Health Literacy training for the Communications department at University Hospitals Dorset.
October 2023
Supporting the UHD Cultural Celebration Day
Providing a literature search, quiz and after-action review for the Organisational Development Team.
September 2023
Job interview support
Sourcing books and articles to help a staff member prepare for a job interview.
January 2024
Systematic Review assistance
Assistance with conducting a systematic review and gaining full text articles about the psychometric properties of outcome measures in haemophilia.
May 2024