Assurance, Risk and Governance

Risk and Compliance Challenges

Healthcare organisations in the UK will continue to be subjected to a number of audit and good practice requirements from regulatory bodies. These requirements create a number of challenges for organisations including the following:

• The large number of audit requirements, and competing deadlines, that clinical staff are required to complete, do not allow staff to synchronise planning.
• Audits increasingly focus on proactive and preventative measures rather than the more traditional reactive measures of analysing incidents that have occurred.
• Responding to the increase in the range of organisations requiring information - as healthcare commissioners build reporting requirements into their contractual arrangements.
• Additional requirements to measure and improve systemic elements including a patient-focused culture.

These challenges place increased pressures on organisations to demonstrate that they are responding to risk management assessments and collating appropriate data - factors that led Community Services Wandsworth to create the Team Tool.

Our solution to these challenges

Community Services Wandsworth have partnered with Think Associates and ikonami Ltd to offer the Team Tool to other NHS organisations.

The Team Tool is a web-based assurance, governance and quality improvement toolkit which encourages teams within an organisation to reflect on best practice standards and then provide evidence based information as to how they are addressing risk management, compliance and quality improvement requirements.

Click here to download the Team Tool Fact Sheet

If you are interested in finding out more about the Team Tool, please contact us for further information or to arrange a demonstration or visit the Team Tool website.