The West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership (WDHSCP) Digital Strategy 2024-2027 is an ambitious approach to developing digital services and structures, and to deliver successful change for employees, service users and other stakeholders. The strategy will support the HSCP Strategic Plan as well as national Digital Health and Care and Health and Social Care Data strategies. Alongside the Digital Strategy, a Delivery Plan has been developed which supports the HSCP Strategic Plan Delivery Plan.
The aims of the WDHSCP Digital Strategy 2024 – 2027 are to:
- Support the vision and delivery of the Strategic Plan 2023 – 2026 Improving Lives Together.
- Evaluate and improve digital maturity within WDHSCP.
- Ensure best use of modern, secure systems and technologies which help streamline processes, and improve quality and usage of our data.
- Reduce costs within our services by implementing digital tools and streamlining processes.
- Improve outcomes for service users by introducing technology enabled care and supporting the transition from analogue to digital telecare.
- Introduce high quality, innovative, accessible digital services which bring benefits to service users, carers, families, and employees.
- Focus on the development of digital skills for employees, ensuring confidence in using digital technologies.
- Ensure any digital technologies introduced by the partnership consider equalities, inclusion, and any environmental impacts before approval.
- Ensure governance of digital work streams support the digital strategy, and link appropriately to national and local strategies which influence the partnership.
- Support digital inclusion within our communities, working with partners and providers to increase digital skills and access to technologies.
The aims of the strategy, alongside national priorities, will be considered when projects with a digital element are being started up and progress monitored through the duration of individual projects.