Build the Knowledge, skills and confidence to lead digital change and create real-world impact in healthcare.
Originally commissioned by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, the programme has been expanded to support NMAHP leaders from across the wider health and care system.
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The Digital Leadership Programme is a six-month learning programme for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals who want to lead digital, data and technology-enabled transformation in health and care.
Originally commissioned by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, the programme is now open to NMAHPs from organisations across the NHS, social care, independent and voluntary sectors.
It blends independent academic study with action learning, expert input and a work-based project, equipping you with the knowledge, confidence and networks to lead change in your organisation and beyond.
Expert-led learning
Real-world projects
Lasting impact
Build your digital and data leadership skills
Apply learning through a work-based project
Join a community of practice
Gain skills for future academic progression
The Digital Leadership Programme is designed for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHPs) who are leading, influencing, or aspiring to lead digital, data and technology-enabled transformation.
Whether you are an emerging digital leader seeking to develop your leadership capability, a clinical innovator championing change within your service, or an experienced leader looking to strengthen your understanding of digital technology, AI, data and innovation, this programme provides the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to drive meaningful improvement in healthcare.
Develop the confidence and leadership capability to take your next step in digital health.
Build skills to turn ideas and opportunities in to meaningful change within your service.
Strengthen your understanding of digital technology, AI, Data and innovation to lead transformation.
The need for digitally confident clinical leaders has never been greater. As healthcare organisations respond to the ambitions of the NHS 10-Year Health Plan, the Nursing and Midwifery workforce strategy, and the rapid advancement of AI and data-driven technologies, NMAHPs have a critical role in ensuring innovation translates into better outcomes for patients, staff and services.
This programme equips participants with the capability to bridge clinical practice, data, technology and transformation, enabling them to lead change with confidence in increasingly complex healthcare environments.
To equip NMAHP leaders with the specialist knowledge and skills necessary to leverage digital system data alongside change methodologies such as user-centred design, agile and quality improvement for continuous improvement in healthcare practice. The programme seeks to foster a culture of collaborative learning and enable you to create, implement and evaluate innovative solutions in your own organisation.
Use digital system data and change methodologies to drive continuous improvement.
Understand digital safety, AI, data science, ethics and digital innovation in practice.
Develop and implement a work-based solution underpinned by data.
The programme combines expert-led teaching, action learning, peer networking, and workplace application to ensure learning has a direct, measurable impact.
The programme combines expert-led teaching, action learning, peer networking and workplace application to ensure learning has a direct and measurable impact.
DISKPASS, our online learning platform, underpins each learning module, providing participants with access to structured digital leadership and capability development resources alongside the face-to-face programme. Learners build and apply knowledge across digital health, data, innovation, AI, ethics, leadership and transformation, creating a continuous learning experience between taught sessions.
Throughout the programme, participants develop and implement a work-based innovation project, applying programme learning to a real challenge or opportunity within their own organisation. Supported by mentors, expert faculty and a community of practice, participants leave with both enhanced leadership capability and tangible service improvement outcomes
Access DiSKPASS modules covering digital health, data, AI, Ethics, innovation, leadership and transformation.
Learn from experienced leaders and specialists from academia, healthcare and industry.
Apply your learning to a real challenge or opportunity within your organisation, supported by expert mentors.
Learn alongside peers, share experience and build a professional network that continues beyond the programme.
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Structured online digital learning supports each module, creating a continuous learning experience between taught sessions.
Feedback from previous programme participants.
Agreement with intended learning outcomes
Practical application & impact
Digital & data leadership confidence
Senior Physiotherapist & Digital NMAHP
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Thomas was already leading digital improvements in respiratory care. The programme helped him build on that experience, strengthening his approach to leadership, stakeholder engagement and sustainable change.
“The Digital Leadership Programme gave me the structure, knowledge and confidence to develop from someone delivering digital improvement within my own service into a clinician who could contribute more strategically to digital transformation.”
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