Euan McComiskie, well being informatics lead on the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and member of the Digital Well being Networks Chief Nursing Data Officer Advisory Panel (Credit score: CSP)
A free digital training programme has been launched to offer entry to digital and knowledge data and sensible abilities for allied well being professionals (AHPs) primarily based within the UK.
The Digital and Knowledge Foundations training programme, which launched on 24 November 2025, is hosted by the NHS England Digital Academy, however can be open for AHPs not working within the NHS.
It has been totally funded by NHS England Digital Academy and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) Charitable Belief, in collaboration with Keele College, EL Healthcare Schooling, the CSP and different AHP skilled our bodies.
Prabha Vijayakumar, chief AHP info officer at NHSE, mentioned: “The coaching is designed in order that it caters to the wants of the learner, not only one occupation, one setting or one stage {of professional} maturity.
“It’s versatile and adaptable to the organisations and to the abilities gaps of the learner.
“We wish digital and knowledge to be comfy for AHPs in any respect ranges. That can create digitally mature and data-enabled AHP providers, and finally, seen digital AHP management.”
The programme, which can be open to college students and help staff, is module-based with bite-sized content material permitting for learners to entry it in their very own time round different work or finding out commitments.
It’s supported by multimedia, interactive content material, case research from actual AHPs, and reflective actions to help AHPs to use the educational in their very own staff, service or setting.
Euan McComiskie, well being informatics lead on the CSP and member of the Digital Well being Networks Chief Nursing Data Officer Advisory Panel, mentioned: “We’ve collaborated with AHP colleagues and educational specialists to make this training programme work for all learners no matter their digital or knowledge experience at first of the course.
“The interactive parts of the programme and the reflective actions will preserve the learner engaged and provides them personalised outputs of their a part of the AHP world.”
The programme is designed to offer a stable basis of digital and knowledge training particularly for AHPs throughout the UK.
In the meantime, James Freed, deputy director of the NHS Digital Academy, mentioned that healthcare employees are quitting the sector due to a scarcity of digital literacy abilities which leads them to wrestle with know-how.
Talking on the BMJ Future Well being convention in London on 6 November 2025, Freed mentioned that poor ranges of digital literacy within the NHS are inflicting poorer affected person outcomes, employees burnout and staff to go away the sector.
