KnowledgeShare is a web application that makes NHS library and knowledge services more accessible to staff and students. It allows library and knowledge services to:
- Manage requests for evidence searches, de-duplicate results, and share the results of searches more widely.
- Run information skills teaching sessions and give participants the opportunity to book, cancel bookings, download course materials and generate certificates of attendance.
- Provide regular, targeted, personalised evidence updates to staff, based on specific professional interests. Subject-specific bulletins and journal table-of-contents (TOC) alerts can also be produced.
- Report on searching, teaching and provision of evidence updates.
As well as providing access to evidence search services and information skills teaching, KnowledgeShare provides targeted evidence updates via email to NHS staff. These are individualised based on a staff member’s interest in particular conditions or lifestyle factors, age groups, settings of care, interventions and management topics.
KnowledgeShare informs staff about new evidence that matters, focusing on high-level evidence, publications on management and educational topics, and local professional development events. KnowledgeShare keeps you up to date without overwhelming you with information.
We have recently increased our content in the areas of allied health, including psychology, and will continue to expand our coverage as more teams join the scheme. A full list of resources currently included on KnowledgeShare is shown as an appendix.
As more library and knowledge services join KnowledgeShare it becomes more powerful for reducing library staff workload, sharing evidence and generating communities of practice.
Around 130 library teams are currently using the system to provide services to over 450 health care organisations, including hospitals, community services, mental health, public health and ICBs. The number of teams using the system continues to increase year-on-year.
90,000 NHS staff receive services through KnowledgeShare with 17,200 joining in 2024.
KnowledgeShare is always developing and improving. We have recently upgraded our evidence search functionality to include de-duplication of search results and better RIS inputting. Over the next year we will upgrade the user interface to be more accessible on mobile devices, increase the range of journals available for table of contents alerts, and integrate further with the NHS link resolver.
We have recently made it easier for library and knowledge service staff to collaborate across integrated care systems, and we aim to introduce a full and flexible reporting module during 2025.
Created by: Ben Skinner, Head of Knowledge, Libraries and Learning Technology – [email protected]
Provided by: University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust – www.uhsussex.nhs.uk
Built by: Maldaba – www.maldaba.co.uk
Terms and conditions: www.knowledgeshare.nhs.uk/index.php?PageID=help_legal
Privacy policy: www.knowledgeshare.nhs.uk/index.php?PageID=help_privacy
High-Level Evidence
British Association for Psychopharmacology
Lancet Psychiatry
British Journal of Nursing
NHS Choices behind the headlines
British Journal of Psychiatry
NICE
Centre for Mental Health
NICE Medicines Awareness
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
NIHR Signal
ChiMat
OTSeeker
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
PEDro
College of Optometrists
PsycBITE
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
Royal College of Anaesthetists
Early intervention in Psychiatry
Royal College of Emergency Medicine
Evidence-Based Medicine
Royal College of General Practitioners
Evidence-Based Mental Health
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Evidence-Based Nursing
Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Faculty of Dental Surgery
Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health
Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
Royal College of Pathologists
Faculty of Occupational Medicine
Royal College of Physicians of London
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Faculty of Public Health
Royal College of Radiologists
Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Health Services and Delivery Research
SIGN
Health Technology Assessment
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
Society of Radiographers (Policy and Guidance)
Journal of Paramedic Practice
SpeechBITE
KT+ Alert
WHO
….plus evidence searches carried out by Library and Knowledge Service teams around the country.
Management topics – Quality, Safety, Patient Experience, Management, Research, Service Design
BMA
NHS England
BMJ Quality & Safety
NHS Evidence – QIPP
Chain – Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network
NHS Improving Quality
Clinical Risk
NHS Providers
Department of Health
NHS Right Care
Health and Care Professions Council
Nuffield Trust
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
HSCIC
Patient Information Forum
HSE eBulletin
Primary Care Commissioning (PCC)
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Public Health England
MHRA
Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
NHS Confederation
The Health Foundation
NHS Employers
The King’s Fund
Local events, conferences, policies and pathways
This is dependent on your local Library and Knowledge Service who may add local information to the evidence updates if they wish.