TY - JOUR T1 - The digital transformation – all good? JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 177 LP - 177 DO - 10.7861/fhj.ed-7-3-1 VL - 7 IS - 3 AU - Kevin Fox Y1 - 2020/10/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/3/177.abstract N2 - The theme of this issue is ‘Digital health workforce’. When we decided upon this topic in 2019, we knew it to be important, but we could not have anticipated the speed in the introduction of digital technologies into our services that has been precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. I am therefore tremendously grateful to Sheena Visram, one of our editorial board, and Wajid Hussain, the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP's) clinical director for digital health, for jointly guest editing this issue.Back in April, I worried that journals would be one of the casualties of the pandemic. Paralleling many predictions made in those early weeks of the pandemic, I was completely wrong. We have seen a 400% increase in submissions matched by social media activity (@FutureHealthJ) and downloads from our website (www.rcpjournals.org/content/futurehosp). In response, we have accelerated the development of our online resources. The COVID-19 online subject collection (www.rcpjournals.org/covid-19), shared jointly with Clinical Medicine is filled with articles … ER -