TOPOL Review Published
Exploring how to
prepare the healthcare workforce, through education and training, to deliver
the digital future
CILIP,
the UK professional association for librarians and information professionals,
has welcomed the publication of The Topol Review report Preparing the healthcare
workforce to deliver the digital future.
CILIP’s response
highlights the following key messages:
·
We welcome the ‘human-centred’ approach set out in the report, focused
on outcomes for patients including dignity and equality of access. It is
essential that the progressive agenda for the future of healthcare does not
create new forms of inequality or exclusion;
·
CILIP believes that the report presents a real opportunity to transform
the skills base of the healthcare workforce, while also recognising the
importance of information and knowledge specialist staff in providing quality
information from the Boardroom to the bedside;
·
We believe that the future envisioned by the report also depends on
encouraging the development of a digitally and information-literate population
as part of the ecosystem of information resilience, including new forms of
health literacy;
·
We welcome and endorse the powerful insight that AI will enhance and
augment information and knowledge skills in healthcare, rather than replacing
them;
·
We welcome the recognition of the need to build information capability
at the most senior levels in healthcare, including the proposal to ensure that
every Healthcare Trust Board has a Chief Clinical Information Officer;
·
We further welcome the recognition of the need to promote cultures of
knowledge sharing and the improvement of Knowledge Management practice to
ensure that the NHS ‘knows what it knows’
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