Tackling risk management together

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Risk is everyone’s business, no matter what your role in the organisation. We all manage daily risks in our personal lives, making decisions based on the best likely outcome. It should be no different at work.

A risk is the chance of something happening that prevents us delivering our aims and objectives. Risk management is the way in which we identify, assess, and manage these risks to reduce their impact if they were to occur, or ideally, prevent them from happening completely.

Our top risks

At EEAST, we have seven key overarching “strategic risks,” these are the main factors that would prevent us from achieving our goals and ultimate vision of “Outstanding Care, Exceptional People, Every Hour of Every Day”. The strategic risks cover everything from our culture, patient safety and performance to our improvement programme and working with partners.

The top three risks are:

  • Our culture, values and behaviours and the impact on our people
  • Our ability to deliver high quality and timely care to our patients
  • The way in which we ensure compliance with all requirements as a healthcare organisation.

These three risks in particular, cut across all our roles and we can all play an active part in managing them. 

We have produced a slide for each of the top three risks and you can view them here (insert link). They provide a summary of the high-level causes of the risks, what’s in place to manage them and the next steps. Most importantly though, they include the key things that we can all do to help.

Please, take the time to look at the information and discuss with your local management teams the additional actions that are being taken in your area.

Published 21st September 2021

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