First Digital Healthcare Programme Launched For NHS Staff in UK

The Digital Health Academy has become freely available for all the healthcare professional in the United Kingdom for the purpose of upskilling the frontline workers on their digital health literacy.

The Digital Health Academy has been working to actively engaging more than 50,000 healthcare professionals of the United Kingdom in the first year, and whole 630,000 NHS healthcare professionals by the year 2031. The intent of the Digital Health Academy is that, the online training platform accredited by CPD is going to be helping them in building a digitally ready workforce that has been emphasized as a critical need in the readiness plan of NHSX.

The Digital Health Academy has been the first training programme of its kind, and currently, there has been no mandatory digital health training for the healthcare professionals and the courses that, the frontline staff can possibly attend have been often scarcely available and also difficult to the access.

The programme has been saying that, the organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA) has been a response to this need, and the academy has been developed by the ORCHA in the partnership with the clinicians of NHS and the universities in the United Kingdom.

Joel Brown, a doctor, who has been reviewing the foundation modules said that, it has been taking a paradigm shift for the purpose of moving the physicians away from seeing the prescription as an exclusive pharmaceutical enterprise.