The Scottish authorities has launched a young to supply an up to date model of its on-line digital maturity evaluation instrument, together with new questions particularly on the usage of AI.
The instrument, which was first launched in 2019, allows well being and social care organisations to guage how successfully they use digital applied sciences to ship, handle and enhance companies.
As a part of its 2025 growth, new components are being added to the digital maturity evaluation, together with a linked evaluation on innovation and questions particularly on the digital maturity of AI.
A Scottish authorities spokesperson advised Digital Well being Information, mentioned: “As a part of our present digital maturity evaluation course of, for 2025 we will probably be including a linked evaluation on innovation and new questions particularly on AI – masking resourcing, governance, management and strategic alignment.
“Outcomes from this may assist our understanding of organisational readiness and measure progress.”
A contract discover, printed on 25 July 2025, states that “the Scottish authorities has a requirement to position a contract with an exterior supplier to design, ship and preserve a nationwide on-line digital maturity evaluation instrument and a linked studying and growth web site”.
The profitable service supplier will probably be required to “develop a sturdy, user-friendly digital maturity evaluation platform tailor-made to the Scottish well being and social care context”.
It provides that the successful bidder should “allow benchmarking at native regional and nationwide ranges and supply actionable insights to tell digital transformation planning and funding”.
Different necessities set out within the contract discover are to “design and host a complimentary studying and growth web site providing curated sources, bespoke evaluation, dialogue teams and enchancment guides aligned with evaluation outcomes” and to “guarantee accessibility, information safety and ongoing technical assist”.
“This work will play a crucial function in supporting steady enchancment, workforce growth and strategic alignment throughout Scotland’s well being and social care panorama,” the discover provides.
There isn’t any worth said for the contract; nevertheless, it’s estimated to final for 3 years and could also be prolonged for a interval of as much as two years. Topic to that constraint, the interval of the contract could also be prolonged on multiple event.
suppliers should submit by 26 August 2025 and embody of their submission two examples of enterprise related companies throughout the final three years.
Commenting on the up to date digital maturity evaluation, Fiona Schaefer, innovation commercialisation supervisor at InnoScot Well being, mentioned: “With the fitting service supplier, this can be a welcome transfer to allow Scottish well being and social care to actively measure and enhance their digital processes, in the end enhancing companies.
“The flexibility to regularly monitor and consider maturity is significant to the nation’s ongoing transformational ambitions, and if efficiently bolstered by a well-considered studying and growth web site, ought to represent a complete strategy to assessing strengths and addressing weaknesses at any given time.
“Such an providing represents a sturdy strategy to navigating digital enchancment and mapping the way in which ahead in an ever-evolving well being and social care house the place accessibility, inclusion, and equitability for all is paramount.”
