AI Assurance for Clinical Safety Officers - Online Training

While the webinar is designed with Clinical Safety Officers in mind, it is also valuable for CCIOs, CNIOs, Digital Leads, Information Governance professionals, AI Leads and anyone responsible for assuring AI technologies within healthcare.

A practical session exploring the governance, legal and information risks associated with AI in healthcare, designed for CSOs

18th August 2026, 12pm to 2pm

Online via Teams

For Clinical Safety Officers, AI presents new challenges. Traditional clinical risk management remains essential, but AI introduces additional considerations around governance, transparency, human oversight, supplier assurance, data protection and emerging regulation.

This practical 2-hour session explores the questions Clinical Safety Officers should be asking when reviewing AI systems, helping you feel more confident in identifying risks and challenging suppliers.

Who should attend?

This session is particularly relevant for:

• Clinical Safety Officers

• CCIOs and CNIOs

• Digital Transformation Leads

• Digital Programme Managers

• Information Governance Professionals

• AI Leads

• Digital and Clinical Governance Teams

• NHS organisations implementing AI technologies

What we'll cover

• Understanding today's AI landscape in healthcare

• Where AI introduces new risks

• Clinical safety versus AI governance – where they overlap

• Questions to ask AI suppliers

• Understanding AI transparency and explainability

• Human oversight and accountability

• Bias, fairness and unintended consequences

• Data protection and confidentiality considerations

• Emerging requirements including the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001

• Practical examples from NHS AI deployments

• Interactive Q&A

What you'll receive

• Live online session (2 hours)

• PDF copy of the presentation

• Practical AI governance resources and checklists

• Certificate of attendance

About the presenter

Emma Kitcher is Director of Kafico Ltd and has spent over a decade supporting NHS organisations with information governance, data protection and AI assurance.

Emma holds a Master's degree in Information Rights Law and Practice (specialism AI and Human Rights), is an ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer, chairs the East of England AI Privacy & Ethics Network and has extensive experience supporting health and care organisations to assess AI technologies through governance, legal and risk management frameworks.

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Please note: This session complements formal Clinical Safety Officer training but is not a DCB0129/DCB0160 Clinical Safety Officer qualification course. It focuses specifically on AI governance and assurance within healthcare.