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NHS advertises for digital director at £131k

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NHS England is recruiting for a director of digital experience for £131,000, part of a major digital rebrand of the health service.

The digi director will be a key senior leader in the Chief Information and Technology Officer’s group, said the job ad.

It will involve "Identifying services across the entirety of the NHS portfolio where digitisation will dramatically improve patient outcomes or enable organisations".

The NHS said it WLTM: "An experienced senior leader you will share our values and be passionate about leading digitisation to meet the needs of patients and the public and ensure real progress towards a more effective and efficient digital future."

Back in February, National Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt promised a £4.2bn investment to "bring the NHS into the digital age," part of an attempt once again by the department to force the service to go paperless.

Certainly the NHS is keen to put on a digital face. Next month the Health and Social Care Information Centre is to be rebranded as NHS Digital in a bid to build "build public recognition, confidence and trust".

Critics might observe that trust is something NHS England is in need of building, given the ongoing controversy around private companies such as Google potentially having access to anonymised health records under Care.data.

The closing date for the receipt of completed applications is Friday, 24 June 2016. ®

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