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Using AI to Strengthen Governance Oversight

Using AI to Strengthen Governance Oversight

We used SOPHIA Intelligence — an AI-driven analysis tool — to review and compare more than 300 policy documents from Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) alongside 200 from another mental health trust. The result: clear insights into governance gaps, risks and opportunities for improvement, helping ensure compliance and drive safer, more consistent care.

We used SOPHIA Intelligence — an AI-driven analysis tool — to review and compare more than 300 policy documents from Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) alongside 200 from another mental health trust. The result: clear insights into governance gaps, risks and opportunities for improvement, helping ensure compliance and drive safer, more consistent care.

Client Review

“I found it really reassuring. It has helped us identify where we have the right policies and procedures in place — the next step will be to triangulate them with our safety incidents and patient experience data. What’s exciting is SOPHIA Intelligence can help us to be one of the first Trusts to integrate the PSIRF and learning from deaths framework.”

“I found it really reassuring. It has helped us identify where we have the right policies and procedures in place — the next step will be to triangulate them with our safety incidents and patient experience data. What’s exciting is SOPHIA Intelligence can help us to be one of the first Trusts to integrate the PSIRF and learning from deaths framework.”

Chief Nurse

Chief Nurse

Challenge

With hundreds of clinical and corporate policies spanning multiple service areas, identifying inconsistencies, outdated content and compliance risks is time-consuming and complex. Manual audits require significant staff input, making it difficult to compare documents across teams or benchmark them against external standards. EPUT wanted a data-driven way to strengthen governance oversight, identify priority areas for review, and ensure their policies remained aligned with national best practice and regulatory expectations.

Solution

SOPHIA Intelligence applied advanced AI to analyse and compare policy content across both trusts. The tool quickly identified duplication, variation, and potential gaps while benchmarking each policy against CQC standards and best practice frameworks. This enabled governance teams to focus their attention where it matters most — on high-risk or outdated areas — rather than spending hours reviewing every document manually.

Results

SOPHIA Intelligence gave EPUT a clear, data-backed understanding of their policy landscape — highlighting areas for alignment and improvement while demonstrating compliance progress. This insight is now supporting safer, more consistent care delivery across their services and informing ongoing policy harmonisation work.

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