Most organisations scored reasonably high in the Readiness sections; the assessment confirms that Leadership, Strategy and Governance consistently include local health and social care systems in terms of planning, digital transformation, benefits realisation and operations However, capability scores demonstrating digital integration sit at a lower level than suggested by those results. Basic manifestations of integrated […]

As reported at the beginning of this section of the report, the variances between different organisations within the Scottish health and social care landscape is increasing. Analysis by assessment section illuminates further that this development is not limited to specific areas of digital maturity, but rathe that it affects practically all sections, and that it […]

 Data from the 2024 update to the assessment confirms our observations on the effectiveness of digitally enabled leadership included in our 2023 report: Organisations with a high degree of digital maturity within management categories such as Strategic Alignment, Leadership, Resourcing, Governance and Information Governance are most likely to also score relatively highly for operational categories […]

Data from the 2024 update to the SG/COSLA Digital Maturity Assessment supports our initial view that the availability of high-quality business and clinical intelligence capabilities in turn promotes digitally enabled leadership.  Organisations showing score improvements for indicators including active monitoring of data quality for digital data used for BI and CI purposes, active management of […]

On average, participating organisations have made satisfactory progress in terms of managing their environmental impact using digital tools and especially in support of optimising their consumption of energy and supplies.   Optimising staff and service user travel digitally has also improved, along with capabilities to support their sustainable transport choices.  The least mature indicators for the […]