Salisbury NHS FoundationTrust

The Library at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust provides information to educate, support and advise the Trust on all areas of health care delivery and research for the population of Salisbury and district, and aims to develop a service that is a centre of excellence within the Regional and National framework. The Library also provides a service to staff and students of the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University and to all health care personnel working in the Salisbury District as agreed under contract.

Access to the health knowledge base is essential to the delivery of high quality health care. Decision making by staff, patients and carers needs to be evidence based and health professionals need to be able to continue to develop and update their skills. The Library aims to:

• Provide information to enable NHS staff to carry out their work
• Support the education, training and professional development of all NHS staff
• Support post graduate and continuing medical and dental education
• Support high quality evidence based clinical practice and management decision making
• Support research and development undertaken by NHS staff and the dissemination of research findings
• Assist quality assurance and medical audit
• Provide health promotion and other information for patients