Digital Clinical Safety

Digital clinical safety is now a critical business and patient safety risk for healthcare organisations. As digital systems increasingly underpin clinical decision-making, prescribing, diagnostics and care coordination, failures in digital clinical safety can lead directly to patient harm, service disruption and regulatory challenge. The Healthcare Governance Academy supports organisations to gain assurance that their digital transformation is safe, compliant and enabling better care rather than introducing unmanaged risk.

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We help clients embed digital clinical safety into their governance, strategy and operational delivery. Our work goes beyond technical compliance, providing boards and executive teams with a clear view of digital clinical risk, accountability and maturity. We assess how effectively clinical safety is designed into digital systems, how risks are identified and managed, and whether leadership arrangements provide sufficient oversight and assurance in line with national standards, including DCB0129 and DCB0160.

 

Our support is practical and outcomes-focused. We deliver independent digital clinical safety reviews, gap analyses and improvement plans that provide clarity on what is working well and where action is required. We work with clinical, digital and governance leaders to strengthen roles such as Clinical Safety Officers, improve safety case quality, and ensure digital risks are visible, owned and escalated appropriately. This enables organisations to reduce risk, support safer adoption of digital solutions and demonstrate compliance to regulators with confidence.

 

By working with the Healthcare Governance Academy, clients gain trusted expertise, credible assurance and clear, prioritised actions that support safe innovation. Our approach helps organisations move faster and more confidently with digital change, knowing that patient safety, regulatory expectations and organisational reputation are protected while digital transformation delivers real value.