Introduction
This policy provides a framework to assist BrisDoc and its staff to identify, assess, prioritise, manage, monitor, reduce and report risk. This in turn helps BrisDoc achieve agreed standards, reduce costs, increase patient and staff safety, and maintain and enhance the services that are provided. The management of risk supports BrisDoc’s ability to fulfil all of its core objectives. The BrisDoc Corporate Leadership Board will assess business risks in the context of its core values and corporate objectives. When determining its appetite for taking on a new risk, the Corporate Leadership Board will assure itself that the organisation can continue to provide safe, effective and high-quality patient care that delivers on key performance indicators and will take into account financial, health, recreational, ethical, social, environmental and information considerations. BrisDoc’s lowest risk appetite relates to safety and compliance objectives. BrisDoc has a higher risk appetite towards its strategic business objectives, so long as legal obligations are fulfilled. BrisDoc’s ability to take risk is the consequence of robust and comprehensive risk management being embedded into everyday working practice and processes.