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Presentation at SWACL Regional Conference 2013
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The Public Library Health and Well Being Offer
Background
• 2010 Public library health mapping research
• Wales developed Books on Prescription model
• Successful bid to the ACE Library Development Initiative fund
• Public library health offer development group: 63 authorities in 7 regional clusters
A Key Moment for Public Libraries and Health
• Huge pressure on traditional health services. • Stark health inequalities, ageing population • 6m people with anxiety and depression, three quarters not
receiving treatment • Health and Social Care Act, 2012: local authority
responsibility for improving health outcomes, tackling wider determinants and new approaches to preventative care
• £5.45b ring fenced budget for local authority health services
• GP commissioning/Health and Well Being Boards • Key role for community based early intervention,
prevention and self help strategies
The Public Library Health Offer
Libraries have huge potential to deliver a health offer • Trusted community space, • Assisted digital access, • Out reach to vulnerable groups • Health information and signposting, • National reading programmes, • Social reading, • Volunteering • RFID provides anonymity • http://readingagency/about/health.html
New Public Library Health Offer
• Reading Well Books on Prescription Scheme • A new shared approach to Books on Prescription delivery building
on existing best practice supported by health partners • Self-help reading material based on a quality assured, expert
endorsed core book list of 30 books • Complimented by signposting to mood boosting creative and social
reading opportunities • Endorsed by SCL, delivered in nearly all English library authorities • Shared branding and materials, Summer Reading Challenge delivery
model • National economies of scale, value of local delivery • Demonstrates that libraries can deliver a national programme at a
local level
• Shared health offer as a key development platform • Result: high profile value for money shared service
contributing to local authority priorities, delivering community health benefits
• Endorsed by strategic partners; supporting joined up working locally
• Levering in new resources for libraries • Delivering shared evidence and learning • Profiling wider social, learning, creative library offer • Planning for on going innovation (children and young
people, carers, physical health) • Providing a shared service delivering local value
Value and Impact
• Delivered in partnership with Society of Chief Librarians through nearly all English public library authorities
• 100% sign up from South West • Supported by Local commissioning partnerships • Endorsed by Dept of Health Mental Health Tsar • In partnership with The Royal College of GPs, Psychiatrists
and Nursing, DH IAPT programme, The British Psychological Society, BABCP, Mind, British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
• Signposted via NHS Choices, public health web portal • Working with publishers
Partnerships
Stress-buster: Reading can help you
relax and escape and this is a good
strategy for dealing with stress and
anxiety
The medicinal power of
literature: Books on
prescription to be introduced
Official launch 4th June
FAQs •We’ve been operating our own scheme / booklist so can we add our books to the list?
•What support do we get for our local project?
•Where can we obtain funds?
•How does the scheme work?
•How will it be promoted?
Debbie Hicks Director of Research
The Reading Agency
Martin Burton SCL
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