Digital Skills & Training: Future Nurse

LIVING LAB

Digital Skills & Training: Future Nurse

The Future Nurse Living Lab leverages digital transformation to enhance healthcare delivery across multiple NHS Acute Trusts. It addresses critical challenges in medicines management and care coordination by integrating digital infrastructure and intelligent workflows — releasing time for person-centred care.

Government Priority
Workforce upskilling

Setting Category
Secondary care

Setting type
Varied hospital settings

There’s a critical need to redesign care coordination to enhance patient outcomes, reduce errors, and improve system efficiency using a digitally enabled model that’s supported by interoperable data, real-time information sharing, and intelligent workflow tools.

The Future Nurse Living Lab integrates human compassion, clinical expertise, and advanced digital infrastructure to automate non-value-added tasks including medication management and care coordination — enabling nurses to focus on person-centred care and patient safety.

Why this matters

Implementing secure digital solutions

This Living Lab explores technologies and approaches, including:

Medication management

Care coordination

Digital skills & training

Workforce engagement and co-design

Through collaboration and real-world testing, this Living Lab:

Creating better outcomes

Streamlines processes

Upskills workforce

Enables better care coordination

Empowers nurses to co-design and innovate

Releases time to care

The Future Nurse Living Lab brings together NHS, technology partners and academic researchers to co-design, test and evaluate digital solutions before wider adoption.