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Are you involved in digital learning or training and keen to support professionalism and career development in health and care?

A call for evidence has been launched, closing on 7 November, asking NHS partners and stakeholders to support the development of the 10 Year Workforce Plan.

We are thrilled to announce two winners from NHS England at the National BAME Health and Care Awards 2025 – James Freed, Deputy Director of the NHS Digital Academy and Joan Pons Laplana, NHS Choices College Area Manager who won Joint Ally of the Year.

The workforce digital skills charter is a shared ambition, a rallying cry for concerted and focused action to close the essential digital skills gap in the UK workforce.

Professionalism is about more than job titles, it’s about being recognised for what you know, how you work, and the standards you uphold.

As longer-term followers of the NHS Digital Academy and readers of our newsletter will know, the NHS Digital Academy is focussing on the development of digital and data confidence and competence in NHS staff as the single most impactful thing we can do.

The NHS’s shift towards digital health and the rise in sophisticated cyber security threats have reinforced the need for a robust cyber security workforce within the NHS.

The NHS Digital Academy is delighted to be playing our part in shaping the government’s agenda in tackling digital inclusion.

The NHS Digital Academy were asked to lead a session at a workshop on 31 January which focused on the Workforce, Training and Education Directorate at NHS England’s contribution to an ‘analogue to digital’ shift to inform the 10 Year Health Plan.

Digital skills development networks conduct a workforce data collection exercise and lead on developing regional digital workforce plans.