The South East Digital Drop: Your latest handy updates!
South East Digital Skills Development Network
An innovative learning and development network offering various opportunities for NHS staff in digital and informatics
We are back with another week of opportunities...
Only a week remains to secure your seat for South East Connect!
There's only a week left to snap up one of the last remaining seats for South East Connect 2025. Join over 200 attendees at your unmissable regional event for NHS Digital, Data and Technology colleagues! With keynote speakers including Mike Potter , James Freed , Roy Lilley and Sylvia Stevenson Assoc. CIPD, CDE? to name but a few, we would love to see you there. Find out more and book here: NHS Skills Development Network (NHS SDN)
East of England Annual Conference Workshops Programme
The East of England SDN workshop day has now gone live for booking, please feel free to publicise these to your teams. All are welcome (Finance, Procurement, Digital and beyond)!
Visit the SDN Website’s events page to see what's on, when and how you can book. Please do look out for the five Knowledge & Skills Development Workshops time slots (a booking is needed for each time slot you wish to participate in).
?Samaritans ED&I Celebration and Awareness Calendar
The Skills Development Network central team has uploaded the Samaritans ED&I calendar to the SDN website here.
This calendar, brings together some key dates throughout the year. You can use this calendar to see when big religious holidays will happen, to avoid planning meetings or events on those days, and to see what celebration and awareness moments happen each month.
NHS Impact Masterclass
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Hosted by Dr Amar Shah, National Clinical Director for Improvement, the NHS IMPACT Improvement masterclasses will provide expert advice and practical tips for improvement.
Find out more and register using the links below:
You can watch recordings of previous lunch and learn and masterclass sessions on the NHS IMPACT Future NHS workspace
Big Data for Complex Disease Symposium
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Modelling Risk and Disease Trajectories Using Longitudinal Electronic Health Data?
The Big Data for Complex Disease consortium is hosting a symposium to bring together researchers from across HDR UK’s Driver Programmes, and the wider Institute, who are interested in using health data modelling to understand risk and disease trajectories, better informing prediction, prevention, and treatment across the population.?
The symposium will be an exciting opportunity to hear from researchers working with novel methodologies and tackling challenges in working with health data across a variety of diseases, co-morbidities, and types of EHRs.
It will take place over Teams at 1pm-5.15pm on Monday, 31 March 2025.
Learn more about the speakers and full programme HERE
Free face to face ‘Fabric Analyst in a Day’ training
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The team at Slalom are hosting a free "Fabric Analyst in a Day" training session on Thursday 6th March at their Manchester city centre office.
What's it all about?
A hands-on crash course in Microsoft Fabric, perfect for Power BI users who want to understand what Fabric can do. You'll learn everything from data ingestion and linking through to building reports and setting up automatic refresh, with lots of real-world applications.
Who's it for?
This session is designed for anyone who uses Power BI and wants to explore Fabric and to understand more about what it can offer - no previous Fabric experience needed, just some Power BI knowledge.
The details:
? Date: Thursday 6th March
? Time: 9am - 5pm
? Location: Slalom Manchester Office @ Bloc, 17 Marble Street - just behind Market Street
? Cost: Completely free
No catches & no sales pitch - just practical, hands-on training to help you get to grips with Microsoft's latest data platform.
Register your interest here:
Places are limited, so early registration is recommended.
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?National Competency Framework V2 Launch Event
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Tuesday 4th March | 12:00-13:00 | Online
Learn what has changed, added and updated in the expanded version of the National Competency Framework for Data and Analytics
Follow this link:-HERE
?AphA Professional Registration Workshop
AphA is hosting its next professional registration?online workshop on Weds 26th March @ 1pm?in advance of the April submission window. This will be an overview of the application process.
In advance of the meeting, please download and take a look at the?professional registration standards guide?showing all levels of registration side-by-side to help you select your registration level.
There will then be a follow up workshop on Thurs 24th April @ 1pm?for a Question & Answer session.
Best wishes,
The South East Digital SDN Team