#A Million Decisions

#A Million Decisions is a campaign launched by Health Education England to promote the use of Library and knowledge services in ensuring that 1 million decisions (clinical and corporate) made in the NHS every day are evidence based.

As a library service we are committed to helping to support this within SaSH and in the NHS organisations we serve.

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Find out more about the campaign and join in – add your own case study that demonstrates the impact of NHS Library and Knowledge Services in England in action here: Health Education England

What does the campaign aim to achieve?
· Ensure the use in the health service of evidence obtained from research
· Raise awareness amongst NHS organisations of the legal requirement under the Health
and Social Care Act 2012 to use evidence from research in health service planning and
delivery
· Advocate that arms-length bodies seek assurance that the health organisations with
which they work are basing decisions upon evidence obtained from research in line with
the Act
· Encourage each NHS organisation to take responsibility for enabling its workforce to
freely access library and knowledge services so that they can use the right knowledge
and evidence to achieve excellent healthcare and health improvement
· Recommend all NHS organisations and providers to draw upon the expertise of health
librarians and knowledge specialists
· Demonstrate that using evidence enables better and more cost effective patient care.
Librarians and knowledge specialists find, synthesise and summarise evidence faster,
cheaper and more thoroughly than non-specialists, thus releasing time for health care
professionals to provide high quality care for patients
· Embed evidence-based decision-making both in the Boardroom and at the bedside, in the
Practice and for the patient. Librarians and knowledge specialists underpin evidence into
practice and make a vital contribution to millions of decisions being made in the health
service