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    Joanna Briggs Institute Project

    The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is a not-for-profit global organisation committed to the development, promotion and support of evidence-based health care, or ‘Best Practice’. 

    The Practice Development Unit of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland is leading a 3-year programme focusing on a Scottish Centre model in order to forge stronger links between JBI and NHS Scotland in a coordinated and cohesive manner, which allows all-Scotland membership.  The 3-year programme incorporates a scoping process to identify priorities, pilot work to determine most appropriate ‘products’ and processes to support NHS Scotland and an evaluation strategy to consider the impact of the implementation.

    Project initiation date:   April 2007
    Scheduled completion date:  April 2010
    Expected publication date:    Mid-August 2010

    Project update January 2008

    Link opens in new windowJBI Connect December 2007 (PDF, 7.3MB, 18mins 13secs)

    COnNECT your organisation to health care information, practice manuals, international evidence
    summaries, auditing tools and quality improvement resources through JBI COnNECT.

    What is JBI COnNECT?

    JBI COnNECT (Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) is a web-based system that integrates resources and tools with clear easy‑to‑use pathways to assist health care workers make evidence-based informed clinical decisions about the care and treatment of their patients.

    Link opens in new windowNHS QIS JBI project newsletter January 2008 (PDF, 1.3MB, 3mins 14secs)

    Project aim

    To create an alliance between the JBI collaboration, NHS QIS and NHS Scotland that will promote and facilitate best practice and improve patient care.

    Project objectives

    • access, utilise and contribute to a professional international evidence base
    • strengthen existing national and international links
    • create opportunities to share experience and expertise at both levels
    • contribute to the practice development agenda
    • establish evidence utilisation groups and/or evidence synthesis groups across Scotland
    • explore the possibility of developing a JBI node for Scotland
    Through on-line resources NHS Boards can be connected to health care information, practice manuals, international evidence summaries, audit tools and quality improvement resources.
     
    Each NHS Board is being asked to identify a facilitator who will receive training and support from the NHS QIS Project Team so that local needs can be addressed.

    The information available is targeted at a wide range of health care professionals and carers, including: 

    • Nurses
    • Patients/Clients
    • Midwives
    • Researchers
    • Allied Health Professionals
    • Students
    • Carers
    • Managers

    The project team


    Penny Bond, Project lead    
    Proffesional Officer, NHSQIS         
    Tel:  0131 623 4349   

    Peter Wimpenny
    Project Development, RGU
    Tel:  01224 262650

    Sylvia Wilcock
    Project Development, RGU

    Jill French
    Project Manager 
    Tel:  07816166279

     Tiffany Conroy
    Senior trainer, JBI

    Contacts

    Penny Bond,
    Tel:  0131 623 4349