Governance in Healthcare

We understand the unique challenges and complexities of this sector and can work with you to ensure that good governance is at the core of your organisation. Effective governance acts as an enabler to your sector business, and also delivers improvements in safety and performance, demonstrates accountability and leadership within a highly regulated environment, and meets the ever-increasing demands of your stakeholders.

Our specialist governance work encompasses both corporate and clinical governance in sector context. This includes a wide range of governance solutions such as evaluations of board and committee effectiveness, the design and implementation of governance models, advice on corporate structures, due diligence analysis within transactions, board development sessions on good governance and achieving assurance, in addition to reactive advice on investigations and in response to regulatory interventions.

We also provide training and mentoring for boards and their members, best practice advice on reporting and constitutional documentation, and company secretarial support. Additionally, we offer guidance on public and private sector integrated delivery, as well as advice on subsidiary governance, accountability and reporting arrangements.

Our clinical governance advice is delivered with deep knowledge and experience of the sector, ensuring sector best practice works hand in hand with regulatory requirements, quality and safety drivers, a learning culture with accountability, and the bespoke needs of your particular health and social care business, irrespective of scale and complexity.

Most importantly, by working with us you benefit from our board-level experience, bespoke approach, and legally sound, practical solutions. We offer complete discretion, detailed proposals and market-leading expertise you can trust.

Featured experience

• Advising on response to a statutory inquiry against a charity for serious safeguarding and governance failures, which included a review of policies and procedures (and recommendations for updating the same) and interviewing board members to enable a plan for improvement to be put into place. The inquiry was successfully closed.
• Conducting a wholesale governance review for an NHS organisation including interviews and a full desktop review, as well as providing an assurance audit 6 months after the initial review. The review included an extensive review of terms of reference, risk registers and assurance frameworks and audit reports, alongside general corporate and clinical governance concerns.
• Working with clients to design and implement a group wide clinical governance framework across a national and international provider group
• Delivering training to healthcare organisations on boardroom behaviour and challenge techniques, general duties and specific regulatory duties, including well led support