by Charlie Helps FRSA | Oct 8, 2026 | AI, Articles, Artificial Intelligence, Board of Directors, Governance, Insight, NHS
Status: Formal Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) regulatory expectations interpreting existing UK General Data Protection Regulation duties. This is not new legislation. Published: 8 October 2026. Applicable date: Existing data-protection duties remain...
by Charlie Helps FRSA | Feb 13, 2025 | Articles, Board of Directors, Clinical Governance, Governance, NHS, NHS Quality, Quality Assurance
It was a crisp morning in 1995 when Dr. Steve Bolsin walked into Bristol Royal Infirmary, his stomach knotted with anxiety. For months, he had been tracking the disturbing mortality rates in the hospital’s pediatric cardiac surgery unit. Children were dying at...
by Charlie Helps FRSA | Feb 11, 2025 | Board of Directors, Governance, Integrated Reporting, Integrated Thinking
How do NHS Boards get their assurance? The transformation from “internal control” to “Board Assurance Framework” (BAF) represents a significant shift in both terminology and practice that has had far-reaching implications for NHS governance. In...
by Charlie Helps FRSA | Aug 24, 2021 | Insight
Integrated Care System The Integrated Care System (ICS) topic has had much airtime recently, and yet, there are still no clear answers. To date, the non-statutory Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) have had to operate on initiative and imagination...
by Charlie Helps FRSA | Aug 5, 2014 | Articles
Quality and Risk in the NHS We highly recommend this video to anybody interested in governance, quality and risk in the NHS. Judge Mervyn King, a long-time friend of the late Nelson Mandela, speaks with deep commitment about the responsibilities of directors in the...
