Developing a Scottish Digitally-enabled NMAHP workforce

Dr Lesley Holdsworth

SG Digital Health and Care Clinical Lead

@lesleyahpd

Health and Care Educators Digital Programme

• Overview of the digital world we live and

work in in Scotland

• How we are developing the digital NMAHP

workforce

• Examples of NMAHP Digital Practice

• Aim to get you thinking about how this

relates to you, your HEI organisation and

how we prepare our future workforce in

terms of:

• Their digital understanding and skills

• How they learn

• How they apply

• How they grow

Digital: a compelling argument

Digital Native?

OR

Digital Immigrant?

Katherine Johnson

What does this mean for

health and care?

Some drivers for change

Some drivers for change

‘I have access to the information, tools and services I need to help maintain and improve my health and wellbeing.

I expect my health and social care information to be captured electronically, integrated, and shared securely to assist service staff and carers that need to see it …

… and that digital technology and data will be used appropriately and innovatively, to:

– help plan and improve health and care services

– enable research and economic development, and

– ultimately improve outcomes for everyone.’

Person-centred vision

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/04/3526/downloads

6 Domains:

Domain A

National direction and leadership

Domain B

Information governance, assurance

and cyber security

Domain C

Service transformation

Domain D

Workforce capability

Domain E

Digital Platform

Domain F Transition Process

Digital Platform

So what are we doing to

develop a digitally enabled

NMAHP workforce?

NMAHPs in Scotland

• ISD: Nurses• Midwives

• AHPs

• % total workforce

• “NES will develop digital and IT staff across NHS Scotland to equip them with the skills to host, manage, develop, deploy and procure cloud- based applications to improve the health and care experience”

• “We will also focus on the digital capabilities and confidence of the workforce, ensuring they are able to take advantage of digital technologies to improve their own practice and the care they provide”

Specialist level

e.g. NHS UK Digital AcademySpecialist Digital Masters Programmes

NMAHP Digital Leadership

Championing level

dNMAHP Network

Workforce (engaged & confident) level

Core Digital Competency /Capability Framework

LEADERSHIp

What the dNMAHP network looks like

Plus specials, 3rd

sector and voluntary bodies

Network Steering GroupChair – Sandra Blades

SG leads – Lesley Holdsworth, Mark Fleming supported by Francis Santos

Lead for internal communication – Nicola HendersonLeads for external communication – Debbie Provan and

Catherine McGeeLead for Data/informatics – Laura Cameron

Scottish NMAHP

Digital Health & Care Network

dNMAHP LeadsDesignated Nurse, Midwife and AHP Leads from all NHS

Boards & Partnerships

Developing Digital

Nurses/AHPs In Scotland

Nursing/AHP Informatics

Developing Leadership

Nationally/Locally

Digitally Enabled

Workforce Programme

Networking Learning/Sh

aring

The Scottish dNMAHP Network

What it’s about

To increase the capacity and capability of

NMAHP digital relatedworkforce

To encourage the better use of informatics in

NMAHP service planning and delivery

To use technology to help citizens manage their own health and

wellbeing and particularly in

community and homely settings

To raise awareness of and publicise the

benefits of NMAHP digital practice

National NMAHP Digital Health & Care Network: Key aims 2018-20

• Protective of the people they love, dutiful and very loyal, value tradition - Care givers

• Observant, stable, motivated by the need to maintain security

But……..• Do not appreciate when others break rules or

challenge their authority • Dislike change and unpredictable situations

Myers Briggs

Changing Culture:Myers Briggs: SJ Type: = 53.2% nursing

Page 40

Inspiring and supporting Change

Variables:Dependent on culture & characteristics of the workforce

Need to better understand

The nine-month programme, SG sponsored, structured around three themes:• strategic leadership and

innovation • application of technology to

support service delivery and benefit patients/people

• And, enhancing the NMAHP contribution to digitally-enabled practice

NMAHP Digital Leadership

Programme

• A UK investment in digital leadership

• A programme for aspirational

digital health leaders

• Nurturing the next generation

of digital leaders

• NHS experience meets

academic rigour

• 100 places plus 5 for Scotland

• Harvard, UCL, Edinburgh

Universities

NHS Digital Academy

Examples of NMAHP digital practice

• Care Excellence in Nursing

• Community Nursing Dataset

• Mental health Nursing

• Midwifery

NMAHP Informatics

Data driving service redesign

PROCESS(Delivery)

OUTCOME(Results)

STRUCTURE(Setting)

Simplify

service

model

Discharge Personal

Footcare (Increase

caseload complexity)

Skills maximisation

Improve data

consistency

(TrakCare)

Improve sickness

absence

Eliminate

variation

Reduce

over-

treatment

Dynamic Discharge Process

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

https://www.learning-theories.com/blooms-taxonomy-bloom.html

Some final thoughts…......

If we’re serious about transforming health and care, breaking through boundaries –we need an NMAHP workforce equipped with digital and leadership skills, using new approaches, inspiring change and, most importantly, grasping opportunities to…..

And YOU are key to this

Be capable of living, learning, working, participating and

flourishing in society, a digital society

not to do, but to be!

The Requirement

• All undergraduates are embedded in digital

practice and learning from day one

• HEI curricula using validated competency

framework

• National (UK wide) consistency in approach to

learning

• Newly qualified staff with understanding,

skills and practical competencies to full ‘be

digital’

• So, how can we achieve this?