Digital Leadership Webinar Series

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The Exploring Digital Leadership Webinar Series is open to all roles and levels across health and social care with an interest in the subject. This page consists of recordings of past webinars as well as information about upcoming webinars. 

Upcoming Webinars

The Journey to Digital Leadership

Wednesday 17 April (13:00 - 14:00) Link 

Join this webinar to hear from a panel of current digital leaders in health and social care. You will learn about their personal journeys into the digital field and what it means to lead in a digital age from their perspectives. You will also hear about the opportunities available to develop your own digital leadership skills.

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Webinar Recordings

Past webinars are available to watch here if you missed the live session or wish to revisit the content.

Designing for Social Good - Creating a Glasgow where all lives are better, and people and planet are the priority

Learn about how design sits at the heart of digital leadership through this fascinating insight into the work of the Centre for Civic Innovation within Glasgow City Council.

At the Council’s Centre for Civic Innovation, they are developing and inspiring a network of designers and solvers across the breadth of the city to enthuse and empower citizens and staff to co-design the city they want to live in.

Growing Digital Confidence and Capabilities through Digital Champion Networks

Digital Champion Networks can be extremely effective in growing digital confidence and capabilities across your organisation. Discover more about the role of a digital champion and how a network can collaborate to reduce exclusion, increase participation and embed a digital culture.

You will also have an exclusive first-look at the national toolkit in development to support organisations to build and grow digital champion networks. Also hear from Shannon McNee, Carr Gomm, about the positive impact of Digital Ambassadors and how they have helped to enhance services across a range of support settings.

Leading digital inclusion in health and social care

Based on their recent publication ‘From pillars to practice: Developing a framework for embedding digital inclusion in health and social care,’ Dr Tara French and Aaron Slater share a novel approach to digital inclusion and set out the role you, as current and aspiring digital leaders, can play in this. Hear how the five pillars of motivation, devices, connectivity, skills and confidence and inclusive design might be used to support the practical implementation of digital inclusion in health and social care, supporting the priorities of Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Strategy.

Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way we run our organisations. In health and care it has huge potential to automate administrative tasks, improve how we use information and create new products and services. But what is AI? And how can leaders across health and care harness its power without taking risks that could damage their organisations or put patients, service users or staff at risk? This webinar, led by AI governance expert Sue Turner OBE, provides you with the answers.

Implementing Near Me video consulting - a leadership perspective

Hear from Mark Burrell and Vicki Greig as they share their journey of embedding the use of Near Me consultations into the oral and maxillofacial surgery referral pathway in NHS Grampian.  This is their story of the leadership required to embed technology into a service, from the challenges they faced, the opportunities they found and how they brought people with them along the way. 

The role of design innovation in the development of health and care services

In this webinar, you will learn the value of design and creative practice for the development of health and care services.  We explore the different stages of the innovation process from creative ways to engage with users to define requirements all the way through to the delivery of products and services.  This webinar is for current and aspiring leaders working in health, care or housing with an interest in the role design plays in transforming services.

Fake or Fact - How to Find Good Evidence

Digital leaders need to know how to find, evaluate, use and communicate information in order to make better decisions and improve services. In this webinar, you will learn how to empower yourself and your teams with useful and high quality information to drive improvement and change.

Deliberate Data in Health and Care - Service development, review and evaluation

Hear Ijeoma Azodo, Associate Director for Clinical Service Design at NHS Technology Service, talk about the importance of data to develop and transform health and care services. This webinar will help you to understand more about how you can use data to influence positive change.

Cyber Security - Why it matters

In this webinar, Scott Barnett, Head of Information and Cyber Security at NHS National Services Scotland, shares his expert knowledge on cyber security and why this is such an important topic for leaders today.  In this session we explore what you need to know about cyber security as a digital leader, what’s happening across Scotland and how you can learn more. 

What is a Digital Leader?

Digital technology in health and social care has the potential to transform and future-proof services for Scotland’s citizens. At the heart of all innovation and change is always people. This webinar explores our understanding of digital leadership. Hear from a range of individuals working across health and care who consider themselves to be digital leaders. 

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