Description
The NHS Digital Academy is a professional development programme in digital health leadership, designed to support senior level capacity building in the NHS. The main partners are Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh, with collaboration from Harvard. The programme is sponsored by NHS England and will deliver training to our 300 NHS clinicians and technologists over the course of 3 years, with graduates accredited by the Federation of UK Health Informatics Professionals (FEDIP) and, for clinicians, the UK Faculty of Clinical Informatics. Scholarships have also been supported by the NHS in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The programme builds upon Edinburgh's longstanding experience in developing and delivering postgraduate teaching in health informatics/eHealth.| Period | 2018 → 2022 |
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| Work for | NHS England, Edgbaston, UK., United Kingdom |
| Degree of Recognition | National |
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Activities
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NHS England
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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NHS Digital Academy Module on Citizen-Centred Digital Health
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Business and Community - Continuing Professional Development (CPD)/Training
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External Examiner, MSc in Health Data Science, University of Manchester
Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor
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Technology-enabled work in the Pandemic: What have we learned?
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Global Health Workforce Council, American Health Information Management Association (External organisation)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of council
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What's Happening in Global eHealth: Trends and developments during COVID19
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Deriving value from digital health training: finding the sweet spot between global and national perspectives
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Digital Health and Inequalities
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Research output
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Digital Health Ethics, Governance and Public Health Best Practices: Digital Health & Wearables Series, Episode 35
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Legal and ethico-legal issues in e-healthcare research projects in the UK
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Factors influencing the sustainability of digital health interventions in low-resource settings: Lessons from five countries
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review