Uniting Around Professional Standards
NHS Trusts are invited to support the Federation for Informatics Professionals (FEDIP) through an annual contribution.
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This funding plays a vital role in maintaining and evolving national professional standards that underpin the health and care informatics workforce, ensuring it is skilled, recognised and fit for the future.
This includes the Occupational Architecture, which provides a consistent framework for defining roles, skills and progression across the digital workforce.
Support the Future of Health and Care Informatics
Digital professionals play an increasingly vital role in delivering safe, effective, and modern healthcare. However, the national infrastructure that has historically supported digital workforce development is undergoing a significant transition.
Recent changes to NHS England’s digital structure and the withdrawal of central funding for workforce programmes have created uncertainty around the long-term sustainability of centrally driven initiatives. At a time when consistency and capability across the digital workforce are more important than ever, the need for a profession-led and enduring set of standards is clear.
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FEDIP provides that foundation. It is the only UK-accredited public register for digital professionals in health and care and serves as a point of continuity and professional leadership during a period of organisational change.
What Your Support Enables
FEDIP is the only public register of health and care informatics professionals in the UK. By supporting us, you are directly contributing to initiatives that ensure the digital workforce is skilled, safe, and aligned with the future of health and care delivery.
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Upholding Professional Standards
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Your contribution helps maintain the FEDIP standards that:
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Recognise the competence and commitment of digital professionals
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Ensure alignment with the specific needs of health and care services
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Promote continuous professional development and accountability
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Contributing to a Nationally Unified Profession
By supporting FEDIP, your Trust plays an active role in shaping a nationally recognised and unified approach to the digital health and care workforce.
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Contribute to a shared professional identity across the NHS and wider care system
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Support alignment between Trusts, suppliers, and education providers
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Help strengthen the case for consistent investment in informatics as a profession
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Advancing the Occupational Architecture
FEDIP’s Occupational Architecture is a nationally recognised framework that defines digital roles, responsibilities, capabilities and career pathways in health and care.
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Workforce planning and benchmarking based on a consistent and structured view of digital capabilities
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Recruitment and role clarity, with clearly defined expectations across all bands and functions
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Career progression and retention, supporting structured development and progression routes
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Alignment across sectors, providing a shared language with suppliers, educational partners and system stakeholders
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The Architecture is built on the SFIA framework and aligned with national models, including the Government Digital and Data (GDaD) framework and the National Competency Framework for Digital, Data and Technology Professionals in Health and Care.
It is currently in use by organisations such as NHS Wales and NICE and has also informed the 2024 national DDaT workforce census, with ongoing application in the 2025 cycle. Its relevance and utility extend far beyond individual initiatives, offering enduring value across the system.
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Championing Workforce Development and Social Value
By supporting FEDIP, your Trust demonstrates a commitment to:
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Raising standards across the digital health and care workforce
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Improving safety and quality through better use of data and technology
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Investing in the professionalisation of the informatics workforce
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FEDIP also offers your Trust a way to guide suppliers in meeting social value requirements in NHS procurement, by encouraging support for a recognised and accredited national standard.
Why This Matters
The role of digital professionals in healthcare has never been more important.
Ensuring that those working in informatics are professionally recognised and supported is essential to delivering modern, safe, and effective care.
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By becoming a supporter of FEDIP, your Trust is helping to shape the future of the digital workforce and supporting a shared national framework for excellence.
Get In Touch
If you have any questions or would like to discuss how your organisation can get involved, please contact us at info@fedip.org or fill in the form below. A member of the team will contact you shortly.