In the context of the move towards Integrated Care Systems, this book reinforces how digital collaboration and connection can create value across the social care and health sectors. It provides both a fascinating insight into how clinicians and professionals have used digital to tackle pandemic challenges, and an inspiration to those who want to build on this learning. I recommend it to all health and social care leaders, especially those with a role in Integrated Care Systems or an interest in digital technology.
Mark Nicholas, MBA, MSW, CQSWChief Social Worker and Social Care Lead, NHS Digital
This edited textcaptures a significant moment in time for the health and social care sectorIt illuminates the importance of what a number of us in Social Work have been lamenting for a significant period, that the design, content and delivery of professional programmes should reflect the world in which students will go on to practice withinLike with Turners previous text, this book serves as a prompt for practice development, both in the educational and field context. I urge those invested in the development of health and social care to listen carefully to the diverse range of voices in this text, and perhaps like me you will begin to adjust your own practices as a result of this experiential read.
Dr Amanda Taylor-BeswickLecturer, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queens University Belfast
Although the COVID-19 pandemic was initially a medical and health emergency its effects have been felt through all aspects of society. Denise Turner and Michael Fanner as editors of Digital Connection in Health and Social Work Perspectives from COVID 19 have reflected this community wide experience by collating essays from a wide range of authors. Although the collection is primarily academic in nature by bringing together this mix of different skills, professional disciplines and backgrounds, the editors have created a work that will be of interest to a much wider readership that just the academic world.
Stephen Frost CStJVice Chancellor of The Priory of England & the Islands of The Order of St John
