Digital technology is central to addressing the challenges we face in health and social care and improving health and wellbeing.
Workforce capability is one of the six domains of Scottish Government’s Digital Health and Care Strategy. It is key to our potential to transform health and social care services.
The current pace and scale of digital transformation require a digitally receptive and adaptive workforce to realise the potential benefits to service delivery.
Who this is for
Digital skills development is aimed at everyone in NHS Lothian with an identified need or interest in developing their digital skills.
As part of NHS Lothian’s Digital Workforce Strategy, we challenge and ask all our staff to undertake a Digital Stretch.
Staff will be asked to identify an area in which they could develop their digital skills and undertake a learning activity of their choice to enhance their digital capability.
Background & aims
We aim to help staff identify their capability and digital ‘stretch’ across a wide range of skills needed to live, work, learn and participate in a digital world.
All our staff will have the essential skills to use digital technologies safely to communicate, access information, learn and solve problems.
What’s involved
We seek to create opportunities to learn a range of digital skills to meet the Scottish Government’s Digital Health and Care Strategy to ensure they have the digital capabilities that fit someone for living, learning, working, participating, and thriving in a digital society.
These include the following ‘Essential Digital Skills’
- Technical Proficiency: The ability to use a range of devices, software, and applications.
- Being Safe and Legal Online: Being aware of protecting your digital identity, wellbeing, safety, and security online.
- Communicating and Transacting: The ability to communicate, transact, collaborate, and participate with others using digital technologies.
- Handling Data, Information and Content: Finding, managing and storing digital information securely and assessing the reliability of the content.
- Learning, Development and Problem Solving: The ability to find solutions to problems using digital tools and online services.
Want to know more?
For more information about digital skills, please email digitalstretch@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
