NHS Digital Academy Campus: New self-guided agile and product learning

We’ve launched a new set of free courses on NHS Digital Academy Campus, designed to fit around busy days and available to all staff across the health and care system.

Tony Blacker, Senior Platforms and Relationships Manager at NHS Digital Academy, provides a whistlestop tour to highlight what's available.

"The courses offer a simple way to build confidence in agile ways of working, continuous improvement and how digital teams deliver," explains Tony.

"They are self-guided and aimed at awareness level, ideal if you are new to agile and product delivery, want a refresher, or just some practical tools to help your team work well together.

"The learning is hosted on NHS Digital Academy Campus and is designed to fit around busy schedules. Content is broken into practical, bitesize sessions you can complete at your own pace, whether you have got 20 minutes to spare or you want to go deeper over a number of sittings; the platform saves your progress as you go, so it is ready whenever you have time available.

"This learning offers health and care colleagues the opportunity to build their confidence in delivery, improvement and teamwork. There are 6 awareness-level courses currently available, with more to follow soon. 

"If you lead or support a team, please share these with colleagues and encourage them to have a look. We will continue to grow this learning offer over time. Each course includes a short feedback form at the end and your comments will help us improve the content, so please do share what worked well and what would make it even better."

How to get started

Set up (or sign into) your NHS Leadership Academy profile.

Head to NHS Digital Academy Campus and select Log in to generate your account. 

Pick a course from the catalogue and open the course page to see what's included.

Select enrol to begin. You can pause at anytime and pick up where you left off.

The NHS Digital Academy Campus courses

1. Agile foundations: An introduction to agile ways of working: core values and principles, and how agile can support better delivery of public services
2. Continuous improvement: The basics of continuous improvement, including practical methods such as root-cause analysis and value stream mapping
3. Team health: How to foster psychological safety, strengthen communication, and navigate conflict constructively
4. Team charter: A practical introduction to team charters: a collaborative tool to improve clarity, cohesion and alignment
5. Digital multi-disciplinary teams: An overview of how to create and support successful digital multi-disciplinary teams
6. Digital and data foundations: A bitesize introduction to health informatics basics. Across 23 short sessions you’ll learn key terms, explore real examples, and complete reflective tasks to build confidence using data and engaging stakeholders to improve care

Help us to share this offer

Visit NHS Digital Academy Campus and try a course this week. If you are part of a network, community of practice, or you work with partners who would benefit, please share details of these free, self-guided courses.

If you would like to hear about new learning as it launches, you can also subscribe to the NHS Digital Academy newsletter.