Furthermore the fact that the centre is pressing Trusts to make savings, whilst demanding more of its digital teams is resulting in staff reductions and increase in use of agency workers, again all counter-productive, and myopic.

Without true leadership in the field of DDaT recruitment and retention, we will continue to bleed experienced staff whilst greater demands on IT are made by SoS’s who see digital as the silver bullet to achieve election pledges. It’s genuinely a remarkable state of affairs.