DigiFest 2020
Scotland’s largest annual digital health and care event will be delivered virtually this year and takes place from 1 – 11 December.
COVID has meant that digital health and care solutions have had a year of rapid scale up and development. This year’s event will enable time to reflect and learn about how digital solutions in Scotland and internationally have grown and been adopted during the pandemic. The programme for the event will highlight the range of digitally enabled services in different settings.
Colleagues from Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health Professions (NMAHP) and NES Digital Service (NDS), will take part in sessions throughout the event.
Members of the NMAHP team will support a panel session on 4 December to share their stories about the learning that has occurred during COVID.
Peter Glover is joined by Elaine Hunter from Alzheimer Scotland and Kath Sharp and Ashley Johnstone from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to discuss issues related to student practice-based learning for the Allied Health Professions (AHP) as a result of the pandemic. They are sharing how digital technology is enabling practice-based learning, and thereby sustaining the supply of graduates to join the workforce. They will explain how different sectors have used technology to respond to the pandemic to ensure that AHP students gain meaningful and quality placement experiences. Further information is available on the Knowledge Network website.
Carol Curran, Audrey Taylor, Gail Nash and Marc Beswick lead the second presentation talking about how the team have used the webinar platform, at pace and scale, to support the AHP workforce to continue to deliver their services during the pandemic using the video appointment platform, Near Me. They will discuss how this was then scaled up as a means of responding to the emergent learning needs of the AHP workforce, with 35 webinars being delivered, reaching over 14,000 attendees, from April 2020. Recordings of these webinars are available on Turas Learn.
The third presentation provides an overview of the NMAHP Digital Health and Care Leadership Programme. This programme, now on Cohort 14, has moved to entirely virtual delivery using a blended approach including asynchronous, synchronous and social learning. Current participants are focusing on either rehabilitation, recovery or new ways of working in response to Covid-19 pandemic. The popularity of the programme has led to scaling up delivery and Cohort 15 will be advertised in January 2021 with an April start. Further information is available on the Knowledge Network website.
NDS, responsible for building the National Digital Platform, has been invited to present at this year’s event on three topics.
Vitamin D SMS Service – Blythe Robertson and Endre Kadas
During the pandemic period, NDS has been providing a COVID-19 SMS shielding service, integrated with local authority support hubs, the main supermarkets and Public Health Scotland (PHS). From 1 August, when shielding paused, the SMS service has continued to provide ongoing contact and advised those previously shielding of changes to local circumstances. Since October 2020, this service has been developed to provide SMS messaging to people in Scotland in relation to Vitamin D provision.
Essential Anticipatory Care Planning – Jonathan Waldheim
Working in partnership with Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), the Scottish Government and NHS Lanarkshire, NDS developed an anticipatory care web form (called an Essential ACP (EACP)) to support care planning conversations.
Emergency Eyecare – Alistair Ewing
NDS has been working on a version of ‘OpenEyes’ ophthalmology electronic patient record which has been deployed to support emergency eyecare treatment centres in NHS Forth Valley and NHS Grampian.
Further information on how to register for this event is available at the TEC in Scotland website.
November, 19 2020