Digital

The NHS is beginning to explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and emerging technologies to improve care and efficiency. However, these innovations bring new risks that require careful oversight.

Audit Yorkshire’s AI and Emerging Tech Risk Advisory service provides:

• AI governance reviews, including algorithm transparency, bias mitigation, and ethical use.
• Assurance over Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and its integration into clinical and administrative workflows.
• Risk assessments for Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and connected devices.

We support our clients in adopting innovation safely, ethically, and in line with public trust.

As organisations become more dependent on technology this increases their exposure to cyber threats. We can provide cyber security reviews, penetration testing and mock phishing exercises. Our cyber assurance delivery includes incident response readiness reviews to evaluate preparedness for cyber events, third-party cyber risk assessments to ensure supply chain security and workshops on secure digital practices. This includes password hygiene, remote working and tailored cyber awareness training for Boards, clinicians, and operational staff. Our approach is not just technical—it is strategic. We work with Boards and senior leaders to ensure cyber risk is understood, governed, and integrated into wider assurance frameworks.

Digital transformation is central to the NHS long term plan, yet it brings significant governance, risk, and assurance challenges. Audit Yorkshire offers a dedicated digital governance & transformation assurance service to support Trusts in navigating this complexity.

This service includes:

• Governance reviews of digital boards and programmes to ensure alignment with NHS- What Good Looks Like framework.
• Assurance over Electronic Patient Record implementations, including readiness, data migration, and benefits realisation.
• Digital maturity assessments to benchmark progress and identify improvement areas.
• Risk reviews of transformation portfolios, ensuring that digital change is safe, secure, and sustainable.

We help NHS organisations embed assurance into the heart of digital change, enabling innovation with confidence.

Our data analysis experts deploy automated tools to provide in-depth investigation into your systems and data, enabling us to better understand your systems efficiency and risks. Through our specialist software, we can better interrogate your systems either through our audit work, or as an additional commissioned review. Our data analytics software can provide access to machine learning applications to be used as part of our testing. This allows us to provide a greater level of assurance and help drive efficiencies and improve cost-effectiveness.