Governance, risk and compliance for healthcare providers
GRC, Risk Management and Audit Software for Healthcare and Medical Organisations — Optional AI Assistant Available
Protect patients, strengthen compliance, and build a culture of safety with Symbiant’s agile, award winning GRC, Risk Management and Audit Software.
Trusted by hospitals, NHS trusts and healthcare organisations worldwide, Symbiant unifies every part of your governance, risk and compliance process.
Powered by 26+ years of innovation, our modular, highly trusted platform replaces spreadsheets, automates reporting, and maintains a Single Source of Truth (SSOT) across your entire organisation.
From only £100 per module/month for unlimited users*
Trusted by hospitals, healthcare networks, and medical organisations worldwide
Independent Government Feedback - UKHSA
Outstanding User Satisfaction with Symbiant's GRC, Risk Management and Audit Software
Independent results from a government-led survey demonstrates a level of trust and satisfaction that is exceptional in the GRC sector, reinforcing Symbiant’s position as a proven, reliable, and governance-ready solution for organisations with serious assurance responsibilities.
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Symbiant Healthcare GRC, Risk Management & Audit Platform
Comprehensive GRC, Risk Management & Compliance Software for Healthcare Providers
Enhance operational resilience, manage risk, and simplify compliance across hospitals, medical networks, and healthcare providers.
Healthcare organisations across the UK face increasing regulatory demands, operational pressures, and public accountability. From governance frameworks and risk registers to compliance monitoring and incident reporting, healthcare teams need a structured, connected approach to Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC).
Symbiant Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Audit Management software empowers medical and healthcare organisations to improve risk visibility, strengthen governance, and streamline compliance, all within one flexible, affordable platform built for operational and non-clinical risk management.
Designed to help align with NHS, ISO 31000, ISO 27001, and CQC frameworks, Symbiant helps healthcare providers manage risk effectively, protect patient data, and maintain continuous compliance while reducing manual effort.
Empowering Safer, Smarter Healthcare
Turn Healthcare Data Into Intelligent Action
Focus on Intelligence, Not Administration
Free up valuable resources and reduce manual effort with Symbiant’s automated workflows, real-time insights, and intelligent alerts. Streamline governance, risk, and compliance so your team can focus on improving patient safety and outcomes.
Find Every Detail at Your Fingertips
Instantly see where you stand with every clinical, operational, and strategic risk across your organisation. Symbiant connects incidents, audits, and compliance data into one central view — giving healthcare teams complete visibility and control.
Minimise Risk, Maximise Value
Make confident, data-driven decisions with built-in collaboration tools, automated notifications, and intuitive reporting. Symbiant empowers healthcare leaders to reduce risk exposure, strengthen compliance, and deliver measurable value across their network.
Symbiant Healthcare GRC, Risk Management & Audit Platform
Connect the Dots for Better Outcomes wiit Symbiant GRC, Risk Management and Audit Software
Symbiant GRC, Risk Management & Audit Software brings all your safety, governance, and risk management activities together in one connected platform. Track and manage everything from patient safety incidents and compliance monitoring to third-party assessments and enterprise risk — all in a single, easy-to-use system.
With real-time insights, automated workflows, and cross-module data linking, healthcare teams gain a complete picture of risk, empowering faster decisions and measurable improvements in safety, performance, and compliance.
Symbiant GRC, Risk Management & Audit for Helthcare Providers
Recommended Symbiant Modules for Healthcare Organisations
Risk Registers
Centralise clinical, operational, and strategic risks with multiple scoring methods, dynamic residual scoring, score aggregation, reviews, and action plans.
Controls & Policies
Manage ISO 27001 controls and policies, run RCSA, auto-adjust residual scores, and generate the Statement of Applicability in one click.
Incident Reporter
Log patient/staff safety incidents with role-based forms, link to risks and controls, create reviews and remedial action plans, and identify emerging threats.
SHE (Security, Health & Safety, Environment)
Capture H&S/security/environment events with >200 data points and built-in action tracking; supports evidence for RIDDOR/insurance.
DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessments)
Use premade assessments, real-time risk scoring, and strong action tracking to support GDPR/data privacy governance.
Complaints Management
Log, track, and resolve complaints on time; attach evidence, run reviews to prevent recurrences, and keep an audit-ready trail.
Audit Working Papers
Run the full audit lifecycle in an electronic folder linked to risks/controls/incidents; export complete audit reports in one click.
Audit Action Tracker
Give ownership, deadlines, and automated reminders to risk-related actions; tamper-proof trail improves closure rates.
Questionnaires, Surveys & Assessments
Build dynamic assessments (incl. risk/control/KRI checks) with conditional logic, scheduling, and response history.
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Map critical resources, see impacted services, and drive incident and mitigation actions to maintain healthcare resilience.
Key Risk Indicators (KRI)
Early-warning indicators with appetites and one-click filtering that link back to risks.
Document Management
Create a Single Source of Truth for policies, SOPs, and evidence across modules.
NHS GRC, risk management software
Risk Management in the NHS: From Siloed Registers to System-Wide Decisions
Symbiant GRC and risk management software accommodates National Health Service (NHS) requirements through its alignment with HM Treasury’s Orange Book guidelines (which apply to UK public sector bodies), its use by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), and its comprehensive, customisable features designed for governance, risk, and compliance in public-sector environments.
Key features and compliance points include:
Orange Book Alignment
The platform is specifically designed to meet the structured, transparent, and accountable risk management standards outlined in HM Treasury’s Orange Book, a core framework for UK government and public bodies, including those in the health sector.
Trusted by UKHSA
Symbiant is the chosen GRC, Risk Management and Audit solution for the UK Health Security Agency, a key public health organisation, proving its capability to operate within a high-responsibility, regulated health environment.
Independent feedback from 450 active Symbiant users at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) reported 95% satisfaction or better with the system and 97% satisfaction with support. For an organisation responsible for national health security and high-stakes risk management, these results provide clear validation of Symbiant’s reliability, governance alignment, and suitability for public-sector assurance. The findings highlight how effectively Symbiant has replaced spreadsheet-based processes with a modern, controlled, organisation-wide platform.
NHS Partner Trust
Symbiant is also trusted by number of NHS partners, including HomeLink Healthcare, to manage their governance, risk, and audit standards for patient care services.
Security and Data Management
The platform operates in a secure, UK-based cloud environment, is certified with ISO 27001, and is fully GDPR compliant. Symbiant optional, fully integrated AI assistant also adheres to strict privacy rules, processing data temporarily and never using user data for model training.
Core Symbiant GRC and Risk Management Features - NHS Alignment
Integrated Modules
It provides a unified system, a single source of truth (SSOT), that replaces fragmented spreadsheets, connecting risk registers, incident reporting, controls management, and audit trails. This is crucial for consistent and accurate reporting to NHS England and other oversight bodies.
Incident Reporting and Learning from Events
The dedicated Incident Reporter module is designed to capture and manage incidents (including health, safety, and security), link them to existing risks and controls, and support follow-up actions and reviews. This functionality aligns with the NHS’s Learning from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service requirements for capturing and analysing patient safety information.
Accountability and Audit Trails
The software ensures clear accountability by assigning ownership of risks and actions with automated reminders and full, tamper-proof audit trails of who did what and when. This is vital for CQC inspections and internal audits.
Customisability
The platform is highly configurable without requiring coding, allowing NHS trusts to tailor workflows, forms, and reporting to their specific organisational structure and evolving clinical and operational needs.
Incident & Safety Management
Structured, role-aware forms to capture patient/staff events; link directly to related risks/controls; create reviews and remedial action plans.
Risk Assessment & Analytics
Multiple scoring methods, dynamic residual scoring, grouping/segregation, and dashboards give clear priorities and visibility.
Compliance Monitoring
Track obligations, policies, attestations, and actions; produce audit-ready reports that evidence NHS/CQC/ISO/GDPR governance practices.
Investigations & Lessons Learned
Record findings, link corrective actions, and prevent recurrences via reviews/action plans across Incident Reporter, Complaints, and related modules.
Workflow Automation & Notifications
Automate reminders, escalations, and threshold triggers (e.g., rising risk scores); keep owners and managers in the loop without manual chasing.
Cross-Module Linking & SSOT
Enter data once and reuse everywhere (risks ⇄ incidents ⇄ controls ⇄ audits) to eliminate silos and maintain a Single Source of Truth.
Early-Warning with KRIs
Collect indicator data, set appetites by category, and filter to spotlight emerging issues before they impact care delivery.
Action & Review Tracking
Assign ownership and due dates; use tamper-proof trails and automated reminders to drive closure and governance assurance.
Audit-Ready Evidence
Keep plans, tests, timesheets, and results together; export complete working papers to a report with a single click.
Configurability & Permissions
Tailor forms, layouts, scoring, and dashboards; apply granular roles/permissions so each user sees exactly what they need.
Simple, Affordable Licensing
Starring from £100 per module per month with unlimited access for all active users*; no hidden fees.
Easy to Embed, Intuitive Interface
Symbiant is simple to deploy and effortless to use. Its intuitive design lets healthcare teams get started immediately — no complex setup, minimal training, and seamless integration into existing workflows.
Audit Management Software
Purpose and Benefits of a GRC Audit
A GRC audit is more than a compliance exercise, it is a strategic tool for protecting business integrity, improving risk resilience, and fostering organisational growth and resilience. By reviewing governance, risk, and compliance processes in detail, a GRC audit delivers multiple benefits:
Engage Every Team in Safer, Smarter Operations
Flexible, Agile, Powerful GRC, Risk Management and Audit Software for Healthcare Providers
Every GRC audit is built on three interconnected pillars, Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance. Together, these elements provide a complete view of how effectively an organisation is managed, protected, and aligned with regulatory obligations and business objectives.
Your Insights. Built for Action.
Gain a complete view of your organisation’s risk landscape, so you can make confident, data-driven decisions faster.
Symbiant’s connected GRC platform transforms complex healthcare and operational data into structured, meaningful insights through intuitive dashboards and reports. Easily categorise, filter, and document your findings to spot emerging risks, track trends, and prioritise the actions that matter most.
Bring clarity to every discussion, align stakeholders across departments, and turn insights into measurable outcomes, all within one intelligent, easy-to-embed and use system.
Fully Configurable. Infinitely Scalable. Designed Around You.
Every organisation is unique, and Symbiant’s award-winning, agile Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Audit Management software is designed to adapt to your organisation’s exact needs.
Our modular platform can be fully configured to your healthcare or business environment without a single line of code. From custom layouts and scoring sets to tailored workflows and permissions, Symbiant gives you the flexibility to build a solution that fits the way you work.
With tools like a dynamic form builder, automated notifications and email alerts, and customisable risk assessment scales, you can align Symbiant perfectly with your governance structure, reporting needs, and assurance framework.
Designed for Teams. Delivered to Take You Further.
Risk management works best when everyone is involved.
Symbiant’s intuitive, easy-to-use platform helps you engage, empower, and connect every member of your organisation, from executives to departmental leads and frontline staff. By making risk management accessible, you create shared ownership and accountability across your healthcare or business network.
With automated notifications, delegated actions, and real-time dashboards, teams spend less time chasing updates and more time driving meaningful outcomes.
The result? A more transparent, collaborative, and resilient organisation where everyone plays a role in managing risk and ensuring success.
SYMBIANT AI Assistant
Supercharge the Way You Work with AI-Assisted Precision
Symbiant’s optional AI Assistant is fully integrated and trained on real-world risk, audit, and compliance scenarios. It understands your data while keeping it secure, helping surface hidden threats, unidentified risks, identify root causes, and predict the consequences of control failures.
Symbiant AI Predicts & Protects
Staying ahead of risk isn’t just about managing what you know, it’s about anticipating what’s next. Symbiant AI predicts emerging threats before they materialise and helps you implement the right controls to protect your business and strengthen organisational resilience.
Revolutionising Auditing with Symbiant AI
Symbiant AI detects new risks from audit findings, ensuring emerging threats never go unnoticed. It identifies duplicates, refines and rewrites findings for clarity, and generates actionable recommendations aligned with business objectives and compliance goals — strengthening assurance, efficiency, and organisational resilience.
Smarter, Connected Risk Intelligence with Symbiant AI
Symbiant AI unites data across modules and departments to deliver a single, intelligent view of risk. It links risks to objectives, controls, audits, and incidents — identifying root causes, predicting consequences, and recommending stronger mitigations.
Predictive Scenarios, Secure Intelligence
Simulates probable event scenarios, showing how risks could unfold and which areas would be affected , helping you prepare before disruption strikes. Symbiant AI neither collects nor stores your data, ensuring full GDPR compliance to safeguard your business.
For Hospitals, Clinics, Health Systems & NHS Organisations
Risk Management in Healthcare
Across both private and public healthcare, including the NHS, effective risk management relies on identifying threats early, assessing their impact on patient care, and ensuring the right governance and controls are in place across departments and care pathways.
Healthcare GRC is a unified framework that combines governance, risk management, and compliance into one integrated approach. It enables healthcare organisations to align their systems, operations and objectives while effectively managing risks, maintaining data integrity and meeting complex regulatory requirements.
This structured approach consists of three core elements:
Governance establishes clear roles, processes, and accountability mechanisms to ensure that healthcare organisations operate efficiently and ethically. It provides the foundation for transparent decision-making and supports alignment between clinical, operational and strategic goals.
Risk Management focuses on identifying, assessing and mitigating potential threats that could disrupt healthcare operations. These may include cyberattacks, patient safety incidents, financial irregularities or operational inefficiencies.
Compliance ensures adherence to national and international healthcare regulations, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001, which mandate strict data protection and privacy standards for patient information.
Although the concept of GRC is relatively modern, its roots in healthcare have grown rapidly over the past two decades. The term “GRC”, introduced by the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) in 2003, reflects a holistic approach to achieving organisational objectives, managing uncertainty and maintaining integrity across every aspect of healthcare delivery.
Understanding the key concepts within Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is essential for any organisation seeking to strengthen oversight, accountability and ethical performance. Below are the foundational terms that define modern GRC practices in healthcare and beyond:
Governance: Establishes the framework for decision-making, defining roles, responsibilities and authority within an organisation. Governance ensures clarity in leadership, transparent oversight and consistent communication, aligning operations with strategic goals.
Risk: Represents the potential for adverse events that could affect objectives. Risk management involves identifying, assessing and mitigating uncertainties, enabling proactive action to secure assets, maintain stability and support organisational resilience.
Compliance: Refers to adherence to all applicable laws, regulations and internal policies that guide organisational conduct. Effective compliance minimises risk exposure, builds stakeholder trust and fosters a culture of accountability and ethical behaviour.
Audit: A structured, evidence-based review of an organisation’s records, data, and performance to ensure accuracy, transparency and control integrity. Audits verify that governance, risk and compliance processes are functioning as intended.
Controls: Defined procedures and mechanisms that enforce compliance and strengthen risk management. Controls form the foundation of internal safeguards, ensuring consistency, reliability and operational security.
Data Privacy: The ethical handling and protection of personal or sensitive information. It governs how data is collected, stored, used and shared, ensuring confidentiality and integrity in line with frameworks such as GDPR and HIPAA.
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): A holistic framework that evaluates, manages and monitors risks across the entire organisation. ERM supports strategic decision-making and reduces negative impacts on operations, finance and compliance.
Information Security: The practice of protecting both digital and physical data from unauthorised access, misuse or destruction. It safeguards the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information through secure systems and protocols.
Policy Management: The structured creation, approval, and enforcement of organisational policies. Effective policy management ensures consistency, clarity and adherence to established governance and compliance standards.
Regulatory Risk: The potential for financial or reputational harm due to non-compliance with legal or industry regulations. Proactive monitoring of regulatory change helps organisations avoid penalties and maintain trust.
Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): The process of assessing and managing risks associated with vendors, partners and suppliers. TPRM ensures external relationships meet security, compliance and ethical standards.
Compliance Tracking: Continuous monitoring and documentation of an organisation’s adherence to relevant laws, standards and policies. It supports accountability, transparency and timely remediation of compliance issues.
Risk Assessment: The systematic identification, analysis and prioritisation of potential threats. By evaluating the likelihood and impact of each risk, organisations can implement preventive measures to mitigate exposure.
Legal Compliance: The process of maintaining alignment with all applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. This includes staying up to date with legislative changes and integrating them into organisational operations.
Together, these terms form the foundation of effective GRC management, offering a unified understanding of how governance, risk and compliance intersect to strengthen operational integrity, transparency and organisational resilience.
In healthcare, Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) frameworks play a vital role in ensuring transparency, accountability and ethical oversight. However, governance risks remain a persistent challenge across many healthcare organisations, impacting decision-making processes, board performance and regulatory compliance.
Below are some of the most common governance risks in healthcare, each capable of undermining trust, patient safety and operational integrity if not addressed effectively:
Lack of Transparency: When healthcare organisations operate without clear communication or open decision-making processes, it can erode stakeholder confidence, damage patient trust, and hinder accountability to regulators and governing boards.
Conflicts of Interest: Personal or financial interests among healthcare professionals or board members can bias decision-making, compromising the objectivity and ethical standards essential to patient care and governance.
Inadequate Oversight: Weak governance structures, ineffective board operations or the absence of independent audits can result in unchecked authority, mismanagement and potential compliance breaches.
Regulatory Non-Compliance: Failure to comply with laws such as HIPAA, GDPR or national healthcare standards exposes organisations to financial penalties, legal action and reputational damage.
Ineffective Risk Management: Without strong processes to identify and mitigate risks — from patient safety and financial integrity to strategic initiatives — healthcare organisations remain vulnerable to operational disruptions and adverse events.
Concentration of Power: When decision-making authority is centralised among a small group of individuals, it increases the risk of bias, unethical practices and reduced accountability.
Lack of Diversity in Leadership: Limited representation within boards and senior management can lead to uniform thinking, reducing the quality of decision-making and weakening governance effectiveness.
Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities: Inadequate data protection measures can expose patient records and operational systems to cyberattacks, threatening confidentiality, service continuity and compliance with healthcare data regulations.
Mitigating these governance risks requires a strong ethical culture, clear governance policies, and robust accountability mechanisms. By implementing a well-structured healthcare GRC framework, organisations can strengthen oversight, foster transparency, and uphold the integrity that underpins both regulatory compliance and patient trust.
To effectively manage Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), healthcare organisations use a combination of structured strategies, clear policies and digital tools designed to ensure regulatory adherence, reduce risk exposure and improve overall operational efficiency.
Policies and Procedures
A robust GRC framework begins with well-defined policies and procedures. These documents establish the standards for compliance and ethical conduct across the organisation. Clear governance policies ensure that day-to-day activities align with regulatory requirements and industry best practices. By regularly reviewing and updating these policies, healthcare organisations create a culture of accountability where every employee understands their responsibilities in maintaining compliance.
Regular Risk Assessments
Routine risk assessments are essential to identifying vulnerabilities before they escalate into significant issues. By assessing potential threats, ranging from cybersecurity and data breaches to clinical or operational risks, organisations can prioritise mitigation efforts and allocate resources more effectively. Regular assessments support proactive decision-making and strengthen overall risk management in healthcare.
Ongoing Employee Training
Continuous education is vital for embedding a strong compliance culture. Ongoing GRC training ensures that staff at all levels stay informed about current regulations, industry standards and internal procedures. This not only enhances performance but also minimises the likelihood of compliance breaches due to oversight or lack of awareness.
Internal and External Audits
Regular audits, both internal and external, are crucial for evaluating the effectiveness of governance and compliance processes. Independent reviews help identify weaknesses, assess control performance and ensure that policies are being implemented correctly. By promptly addressing audit findings, healthcare organisations can refine their GRC strategies and maintain full transparency for regulators, partners and patients alike.
Modern healthcare environments are complex, regulated and data-driven. To maintain compliance and manage risk effectively, healthcare organisations need systems that can bring governance, risk and compliance (GRC) together in one unified framework.
Healthcare GRC software helps achieve exactly that. By integrating governance, risk management and compliance activities across departments, Symbiant empowers healthcare providers to enhance oversight, reduce administrative effort, and improve both patient safety and organisational efficiency.
Centralised Approach to Compliance Management
Symbiant’s agile, modular GRC, Risk Management and Audit Software provides a single, central platform for managing all aspects of governance, risk and compliance. This unified approach eliminates silos and ensures consistent, organisation-wide visibility.
Key advantages include:
System Consolidation: Integrate multiple GRC functions within one connected platform to replace fragmented systems.
Improved Data Consistency: Ensure all teams access the same, up-to-date information, reducing duplication and human error.
Enhanced Visibility: Gain a clear, real-time overview of compliance and risk status, enabling data-driven decision-making at every level.
Scalable and Flexible for Healthcare Growth
Every healthcare organisation evolves, and so should its compliance infrastructure. Symbiant’s GRC modules scale seamlessly as your organisation grows in size, complexity and regulatory scope.
Scalable Implementation: Add modules or users as required without disruption.
Custom Workflows: Tailor processes and permissions to fit the exact and unique departmental needs.
Better Data Management and Reporting
Accurate data management is fundamental to effective compliance and audit performance. Symbiant simplifies data handling with automation, analytics and dynamic reporting tools.
Advanced Analytics: Harness integrated dashboards for actionable insights and trend analysis.
Comprehensive Reporting: Generate detailed reports for internal governance reviews or regulatory audits with a single click.
Real-Time Access: Maintain accurate, up-to-date compliance data across all departments — improving audit readiness and response times.
Increase Operational Efficiency with Automation
Automating governance and compliance processes saves time, minimises manual workload, and boosts productivity across the organisation.
Task Automation: Streamline repetitive compliance and reporting tasks.
Reduced Administrative Burden: Consolidate risk, policy and incident management within one intuitive platform.
Improved Workflow Efficiency: Connect teams and departments through automated notifications and shared dashboards for faster, more effective collaboration.
Addressing Healthcare Technology Challenges
Healthcare organisations often face fragmented systems and disconnected data. Symbiant resolves these challenges with one coherent, easy-to-use solution.
One Platform to Learn: A single user interface and login simplifies training and adoption.
Comprehensive Audit Trail: Every change, action and update is securely recorded, ensuring complete traceability and simplifying compliance demonstrations.
Benefits of Implementing a GRC Framework in Healthcare
Implementing a strong governance, risk and compliance framework delivers benefits far beyond regulatory alignment — it supports better patient outcomes, improved efficiency and long-term organisational trust.
Enhanced Regulatory Compliance: Stay aligned with frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001, ensuring robust protection of patient data.
Risk Identification and Mitigation: Proactively detect and address emerging risks before they escalate.
Operational Efficiency: Streamline processes, reduce duplication and align IT objectives with business and clinical goals.
Reputation and Trust: Demonstrate a culture of integrity and compliance, reinforcing stakeholder confidence.
Cost Management: Eliminate inefficiencies and reallocate resources to patient care and innovation.
Improved Decision-Making: Access real-time, data-driven insights to support strategic planning.
Stakeholder Alignment: Unite leadership, clinicians and administrators through shared visibility and accountability.
Data Accuracy and Security: Maintain consistent, verified data across systems for confident reporting and risk management.
By adopting Symbiant’s GRC, Risk Management and Audit Software for Healthcare, organisations not only meet compliance demands but also enhance operational resilience and elevate the quality of patient care.
Overcoming Common Challenges in Healthcare GRC
Implementing a GRC programme can be complex. Many healthcare providers face challenges such as fragmented systems, shifting regulations and cultural resistance to change. Symbiant helps overcome these barriers through an intuitive, scalable approach that embeds governance and compliance into everyday operations.
Typical challenges include:
Misalignment between GRC tools and healthcare processes
Difficulty maintaining consistent compliance culture
Managing regulatory change and regional requirements
Over-reliance on manual, spreadsheet-based processes
Data silos and inconsistent data quality
Complexity of managing third-party or supplier risks
By unifying GRC functions, automating processes and simplifying reporting, Symbiant enables healthcare organisations to transform complexity into clarity.
Integrating Governance, Risk and Compliance for Better Outcomes
When governance, risk management and compliance are connected within a single framework, healthcare leaders gain complete visibility across the organisation. This integration supports better policy enforcement, faster incident response, and informed, risk-aware decision-making.
Symbiant’s modular architecture makes this integration effortless — allowing healthcare providers to focus on what matters most: delivering safe, high-quality patient care in a compliant, ethical and transparent environment.
Trusted Across Industries
Real Results with Symbiant: GRC Success Stories from Our Clients
Symbiant empowers organisations across diverse sectors with modular GRC, Risk, and Audit Management software that streamlines compliance, enhances risk oversight, and simplifies audit processes. Trusted by clients such as SRBS, Whistl, and Marsh Finance, Symbiant helps teams work smarter, reduce costs, and achieve their business objectives through one flexible, connected platform.
— Anna Kornaszewska, Audit and Risk Coordinator, CITB” We looked for a system that is user friendly and adaptable and could be customised to suit our needs. We also looked for a system that is not too complex and would not add a significant extra burden on the users. […] The system is intuitive and user friendly and can be fairly easily customised to suit the needs of the organisation […] Symbiant has fitted really well into our existing processes. Implementation was quite smooth following some modification to standard to meet our needs […] The users found the system intuitive and user friendly and quickly adapted to this new way of recording and managing risks. Audit and risk team were trained by the Symbiant team and so did a degree of self-customisation.”
” We have had nothing but good experiences and we have a very strong relationship with the team at Symbiant. We continue to use Symbiant for a few reasons. 1. Cost – I don’t know of a GRC solution as broad as ours for a similar price. 2. Customisation – we are able to make changes to have the system look, feel, and run to our requirements with ease. 3. Support – the team at Symbiant Support are friendly, knowledgeable, understanding, and quick to respond.”
— Ben Moulds, Risk, Assurance and Compliance Manager, Whist
— Camilla Owen, Head of Non-Financial Risk (1st Line of Defence)” Our previous risk system had very limited functionality, was very difficult to use and was expensive. […] Reporting was manual, inefficient and error prone.
With Symbiant, we now have a system which is simple, easy to use, cost effective, and connects risks, controls, incidents and action tracking in one tool. […] Reporting is quick and easy, and the system is very well designed and user friendly. The Symbiant team were very helpful and collaborative when adapting the system to meet our specific needs.”
— Megan Macpherson, Risk Analyst, SRBS”Before we moved to Symbiant, we were spreadsheet-based, which was a very manual and time-consuming process […]. We also had a bespoke ‘waterfall report’ made to show changes in risk scores month by month — it makes it very clear to see any changes over the last six months.”
”We sought a Risk and Compliance software solution due to the cumbersome and manual process of managing everything through spreadsheets and folders. […] Our account manager at Symbiant actively listens to our requirements and proposes enhancements to improve functionality. Symbiant has revolutionised our R&C department’s operations, easing our workload and enhancing compliance levels.”
— Dan Simpson, Risk & Compliance Director
— Catherine Gleeson, Head of Internal Audit & Investigations, Concern Worldwide“This free license has had a very positive impact for us. We have been able to continue providing an easy to use method to progress and close audit findings. Addressing internal audit findings timely is a cornerstone in providing assurance that the control environment is operating effectively, which is another positive impact of retaining this system. Also, Symbiant has excellent custom reporting options that facilitate updates to management and the audit committee.”
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions about risk and compliance for healthcare providers.
What is GRC for healthcare organisations?
GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) provides a structured framework for managing operational and non-clinical risks, meeting regulatory obligations, and supporting good governance. Symbiant GRC, Risk Management & Audit Software helps healthcare providers implement, scale, and automate GRC practices across their organisation.
Does Symbiant support compliance in UK healthcare settings?
Yes. Symbiant enables healthcare organisations to track obligations, monitor policies, and link compliance activities to risks and controls.
Can Symbiant help with incident reporting and patient safety data?
Yes. Symbiant’s Incident Reporter and SHE (Security, Health & Safety, Environment) modules allow teams to record, track, and analyse incidents or near misses. These can be linked to related risks, controls, and actions to improve patient and staff safety.
Does Symbiant include tools for data protection and GDPR compliance?
Yes. Symbiant’s Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) module helps healthcare organisations evaluate data privacy risks, monitor actions, and maintain full audit trails, supporting GDPR and NHS DSPT requirements.
Can Symbiant be customised for healthcare-specific needs?
Absolutely. Each module is configurable to match your governance structure, approval workflows, and data capture needs. Symbiant also offers bespoke options for large NHS trusts or healthcare networks requiring tailored reporting or dashboards.
How do I get started with Symbiant?
Getting started is easy. Simply book a free, no-obligation demo and we’ll show you how Symbiant’ can be tailored to your exact needs. Every demo is personalised to your sector so you can see how the system works for your organisation. With full access to the complete platform from just £300/month*, you can mix and match the modules you need and start managing risk with confidence.