Fellowships
Here you will find information on Fellowships in the Innovation and Workforce Diversification team portfolio.
Introduction
NHS Education for Scotland engages with and contributes to a range of Fellowship activity in collaboration with strategic partners. These specific Fellowships inform and shape innovative and progressive workforce planning in Scotland.
This activity aligns with implementation of the NES Learning and Education Research and Innovation Plan
We engage with three innovation and entrepreneurial fellowships:
Clinical Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)
NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP)
Chief Scientist Office (CSO)
Fellowship in Clinical Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) works in collaboration with Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust to access the NHS Fellowship in Clinical Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This programme aims to ‘equip healthcare leaders to adopt clinical AI’ (Guys & St Thomas) 2025.
The fellowship aligns to the NES Learning and Education Research and Innovation Plan In particular, the programme enhances research and innovation capacity (thematic pillar 5).
This 12-month programme sees fellows working 2 days per week (0.4wte) on an immersive clinical AI deployment project in a multidisciplinary team under expert supervision. Whilst the programme is mixed discipline in design, NES will recruit to targeted areas pending available funding streams.
The programme is best viewed as work-based learning complemented by a bespoke programme of small group workshops and e-learning resources which is run via Guy’s and St Thomas team. NES funded fellows benefit from regular engagement with professional leads.
Applications from NHS applicants for Cohort 5 are open from 10 Nov 2025 - 15 Dec 2025.
Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP)
NES collaborates with a range of partners in Scotland to support candidates on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. The Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre (DHI) facilitates coordination of the Scotland cohort, working with NES, InnoScot Health, the Chief Scientist Office and Scottish Enterprise.
Chief Scientist Office (CSO) Fellowship
Chief Scientist Office (CSO) delivers a range of fellowships. The Innovation and Workforce Diversification workstream engages with the Innovation Academic Fellowship, promoting the opportunity. The engagement adds coherence across the innovation landscape focusing on what this means for the system and future skills need. NES plays an active part in recruitment and selection of fellows, supports development sessions and contributes to connectedness with fellows.