Care in the Digital Age: delivery plan 2024 to 2025
Update for 2024 to 2025 to the national digital health and care strategy's delivery plan which describes activities supporting Health Boards, HSCPs, local authorities, primary care, social care, social work, and care providers to offer new or improved services.
Digital Skills and Leadership
Digital skills are seen as core skills for the workforce across the health and care sector.
What we will deliver |
Why we are doing this |
Who is leading this work |
When it will be delivered and progress |
|---|---|---|---|
Provide a Leading Digital Transformation in Health and Care MSc for 50 people a year. |
Support and develop our current and future leaders to drive, deliver and embed digital transformation across Scotland’s health and care service. |
NES |
March 2026 On Track |
A refreshed programme supporting digital data leadership and skills via published Learning Pathways for specific staff groupings and career stages. |
To further develop the core skills and digital confidence of the current, future, and specialist workforce in health and social care. |
Scottish Government Digital Health and Care Division COSLA COSLA’s Digital Office NES SSSC DHI |
September 2024 On Track |
Support the development of our specialist Digital, Data, and Technology (DDaT) professional workforce. |
Inform recruitment and retention and ensure the appropriate level of leadership, skills and capacity, with an initial focus on the DDaT Capability Framework within NHS Scotland Boards. |
Scottish Government Digital Health and Care Division COSLA’s Digital Office NHS Boards NES |
December 2025 On Track |
Promote move to continuous model of measuring digital maturity progress, and use results to inform priority setting and planning. |
Develop ongoing understanding of organisational digital maturity which will be used to drive planning and priority setting of local health and social care systems and national plans. |
All NHS Boards All HSCPs Local Authorities |
Digital Maturity continuous model launched October 2023 Complete Results used to inform planning and priorities Ongoing Summary report published December 2023. |
Digital Mindset Masterclasses to increase knowledge and awareness of digital health, governance and leadership skills. |
Develop leaders’ understanding of the digital agenda, build confidence and competence to harness and exploit opportunities of digital transformation in health and social care services. |
NES |
March 2024 On Track |
Contact
Email: DHCPolicyHub@gov.scot
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