The NHS Digital Academy Digital Health Leadership Programme

Humphrey, Wendy Inglis; Smithies, Alisdair; Prestt, Jessica; Fletcher, Monica; Cresswell, Kathrin

doi:10.3233/shti220901

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“…Our insights are based on a combination of our own opinions and those of a range of expert digitally orientated clinicians including nurses, who are all alumni of the NHS Digital Academy Leadership Programme ( Inglis-Humphrey et al, 2022 ). We believe this gets closer to the realities of COVID and post-COVID U.K. healthcare digital innovation and transformation by highlighting some of the less apparent dynamics.…”

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Nurse Leadership Post COVID Pandemic—A Framework for Digital Healthcare Innovation and Transformation

2023

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic generated a series of profound and unprecedented challenges for health and social care systems and those frontline clinicians responsible for delivering services including nurses. One consequence has been the rapid and widespread introduction of a range of digital tools, solutions, and initiatives. In the United Kingdom, this has required clinical leadership to drive implementation and adoption of digital innovations across the system, ranging from those in senior executive board level positions to those on the frontline. Findings This commentary presents a framework highlighting the breadth of digital transformations which emerged as a consequence of the U.K. health and social care systems’ response to the COVID-19 crisis. The framework outlines the different levels of digital transformation, ranging from what we have termed “ceremonial adoption” to isolated automation, organizational integration, and full systems integration. We reflect on the nursing leadership practices that need to be in place to support these changes. Conclusion Whilst acknowledging the extraordinary results achieved by the COVID-19 driven tsunami of digital transformation, we reflect on the essential steps required to translate these nascent, isolated efforts into fully integrated, long-term solutions. We also offer recommendations for clinical digital leaders and suggest steps that will be crucial to translate the temporary and/or limited interventions into effective, permanent features of our health and social care systems, while also providing a platform on which to build future digital capabilities. We will inevitably continue to see an increase in the use of technology in everyday clinical practice, and nurses are well positioned to take a lead in its widespread adoption.

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confidence: 99%