Industries / Healthcare & Life Sciences
Enterprise risk management for healthcare and life sciences
Hospitals and schemes carry patient safety and privacy risks every day. We help you see, own and report those risks.
- Risks with an owner
- 100%
- Risk register
- 1
ClinicalCorporate
Six risks that recur across every engagement
Each one appears in the register with an owner, a rating and a treatment plan.
Patient safety and clinical governance
Adverse events, medication errors and incident reporting that never reaches the board in a form it can act on.
Patient data and privacy
Health records are special personal information under POPIA. Breaches carry regulatory, reputational and legal exposure at once.
Licensing and accreditation
Office of Health Standards Compliance inspections, facility licences and professional registration lapses.
Supply chain and critical stock
Single-source suppliers, medicine stock-outs and equipment downtime with no documented fallback.
Workforce and key-person dependency
Scarce specialist skills, agency reliance and burnout concentrated in a handful of roles.
Business continuity
Power, water, network and system failures where a few hours of downtime affects care directly.
Inherent rating, before controls
The frameworks your register has to answer to
We map each obligation to a risk, a control and an owner, so the register and the compliance universe are one document rather than two.
- National Health ActFacility licensing, norms and standards, patient rights.
- OHSC Norms and StandardsInspection readiness and corrective action tracking.
- POPIASpecial personal information, consent, breach notification.
- Medical Schemes ActGovernance and solvency for schemes and administrators.
- PFMA and King VRisk governance for public facilities and boards.
- OHS ActWorkplace safety, hazardous substances, incident reporting.
Three services most healthcare clients begin with
Built around clinical time, not consultant time
Interviews fit the roster
Short, scheduled sessions with clinical leads. No all-day workshops that pull people off the floor.
Clinical and corporate risk in one register
Patient safety sits alongside finance, people and compliance, rated on the same scale, so the board sees one picture.
Inspection-ready evidence
Controls and actions are recorded in a secure workspace your team keeps updating, so an OHSC or audit request is answered from live records.
Always satisfied with the quality of their work. They did a great job on our enterprise risk assessment and on our training. Our team now understands how to assess and manage risk.
MthokoRisk Manager: Alfred Nzo District MunicipalitySix hospitals on one risk scale
Training risk owners across a hospital group
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What are the main risks in healthcare and life sciences?
Key risks include patient safety and clinical governance, patient data and privacy, licensing and accreditation, supply chain and critical stock, workforce and key-person dependency, business continuity.
How can risk management help in healthcare and life sciences?
It can help you reduce patient harm and strengthen compliance.
What services does KeyDimension offer for healthcare and life sciences?
We offer assessments, compliance, workshops, training, board reporting, fractional cro.
How do I get started?
Request a free assessment and we will contact you to book a time.
Start with a free assessment
Book with our team. A review of where your risk management stands today and a recommended next step.
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