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May 2025 - Digital Human Rights

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The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE), Scottish Care and VOX (Voices Of eXperience) have developed a set of five principles for a human rights-based approach to digital health and social care. Read through this paper for full descriptions of each principle and examples of how they can be applied across health and social care services:

Link: Human Rights Principles for Digital Health and Social Care

Task

Work through each of the principles with consideration of your organisation's approach to designing and delivering digital health and social care.

Can you think of examples where the principles are already embedded across services?
What more could your organisation do to put the principles into practice?

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April 2025 - Empowering People

Questions

Why is digital literacy important to you in your career?
Now think about the colleagues that you support. How might improved digital literacy benefit them?

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This recorded session (27m 38s) on harnessing digital literacy to empower people was part of Digital Leaders Week 2024. Watch the video and take note of any advice that is relevant to you and your team:

Link: Empowering People: The critical role of Digital Literacy in the modern workplace

Question

The speaker suggests that where challenges exist, they also offer opportunities. Consider what challenges you face when it comes to improving digital literacy across your team, and how these might be translated into opportunities?

March 2024 - Introduction to Digital Leadership

To successfully embed digital transformation and build collaborative ways of working, organisations need effective digital leaders.

Question

What do you think a digital leader is?

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Now you know that digital leadership applies to everybody, read through all of the text (watching the videos is optional) in this Sway:

Link: Introduction to Digital Leadership

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Questions

To reflect on your own skills, go back to the Attributes of a Digital Leader cards in the Sway and think about the following:

Which of these attributes and skills do you feel you already have, and which would you be most keen to develop?
What opportunities are open to you to develop these attributes and skills?
What could you do to open up more development opportunities for yourself?

Task

Jump back to the Steps to Becoming a Digital Leader section in the Sway. Read through it again and try to set yourself at least two actions based on these recommendations. Record these and measure your progress against them over time.

February 2025 - Navigating Digital Change

Question

Think about the last digital change you were involved in. How did those affected deal with the change and was it embraced as fully as possible?

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Although developed for charities, Catalyst's tips for leading through digital change could be applied to any organisation.

This online guidance provides practical advice to address some of the key concerns you might come across in relation to digital:

Link: Seven tips for leading your charity through digital change

Task

Thinking about any previous or ongoing digital changes within your service or organisation, use the advice in the Catalyst guide to note three things you will do differently going forwards.

January 2025 - Digital Transformation

Question

To start thinking about digital transformation, consider how you think it applies to health and social care. What does digital transformation mean for health and social care services ?

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Building on Catalyst’s definition of Digital Transformation in Step 1, Stephen Gallagher, former Director of Digital Health and Care at Scottish Government, describes Digital Transformation as it applies to health and social care in the short video (3m 19s) on the right:

Questions

Having watched the video, reflect on the following:

Has this changed your understanding of digital transformation in health and social care?
How do you think the benefits of digital transformation could be embedded within your team and own organisation? What difference could this make to citizens and staff?

December 2024 - Digital Inclusion

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Watch the recorded webinar below (38m6s) focussed on five pillars for embedding digital inclusion across health and social care in Scotland.

Questions

Reflecting on what you have heard in the webinar:

Has this made you feel differently about digital inclusion?
Which of the pillars stood out as being most relevant for your role and your organisation?
What ideas has the webinar given you about embedding digital inclusion across your team and organisation?

November 2024 - Effective Collaboration

Question

What do you already know about how those around you feel about digital ways of working? Consider whether your colleagues feel excited and empowered, or if they have any reservations or concerns.

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Without understanding each other better we can find it difficult to work together to achieve digital transformation goals. Read this online blog post to learn about the benefits of collaboration:

Link: Digitally enabled collaborative work needs organisational capacity to succeed

Task

What stood out most for you in the blog post?

To embed collaborative ways of working, organisations and their staff need to build and strengthen their relationships and trust. The blog suggests doing this by creating space, reducing anxiety, ensuring equal participation and enabling problems to be more deeply understood.

How well do you already do this when discussing digital changes with your wider team?

Think of an upcoming or ongoing digital change where you could use this approach. Plan how you will do this and what practical steps you could take to embrace collaborative ways of working.

October 2024 - Digital Inclusion

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To build on your knowledge of digital inclusion, read the From Pillars to Practice paper which covers digital inclusion from a health and social care perspective:

Link: From Pillars to Practice: Developing a framework for embedding digital inclusion in health and social care

Questions

Reflecting on what you have read:

Has anything in the paper made you think differently about digital inclusion?
Which of the pillars stood out as being most relevant for your role and your organisation?

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Task

For each of the pillars covered in the paper, reflect on the As part of the workforce I need… statements. Do you feel you and your colleagues have what is needed as described in each of the statements?

If not, what do you think you could do to improve this situation?
If yes, are you confident that others in your team or organisation feel the same way, and what could you do to help if they don’t?

Plan out some actions that you can take, note them down and keep track of your progress.