About DigiClass Ltd

DigiClass Ltd was established in 2022 to provide support to independent and charitable organisations who were unable to access NHS Commissioning Support Unit support.

That support is now available to all health and care organisations

Collaboration

DigiClass Ltd works in collaboration with Clinical Assurance Solutions Ltd

This partnership is built on many years of shared experience in digital clinical safety and assurance, including the co-development of system-level and programme-level approaches to clinical risk management, and the award-winning System-Level Approach to Clinical Risk Management©.

 Together, this work has focused on reducing duplication, improving consistency, and enabling pragmatic, scalable assurance across organisations and programmes.  

This collaborative approach continues to support delivery across a wide range of healthcare settings.

Maggie Lay, RN, MSc, CSO

Founder of DigiClass Ltd

I am a Registered Nurse and an accredited Clinical Safety Officer.

I have worked as Clinical Transformation Lead or Clinical Safety Officer at the NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit since 2012, supporting NHS organisations.

Experience and credentials

  • Practitioner level in Prince 2 project management and Managing Successful Programmes.

  • MSc in Management in Healthcare.

  • Considerable experience of Information Governance and will always try to work in partnership with IG workstreams.

  • Fellow of the BCS and vice-chair of the BCS digital Clinical Risk Management Group.

My passion is clinical transformation to improve patient outcomes and staff satisfaction.

I have over forty years experience in the NHS. I worked as a registered nurse for over 25 years, in a variety of care settings, before moving into clinical informatics.

The shift was driven by a simple conviction: improving the flow of information around individual patients is the only way to improve outcomes across the whole system.

That dual grounding, in direct patient care and in how health data is created, shared and interpreted, shapes everything I do.

I understand the complexity of governance and the challenge of applying the DCB clinical risk management standards within such cross-organisational programmes.

I also believe that digital Clinical Risk Management is not a standalone task; it is an intrinsic part of Clinical Assurance for all transformation programmes, alongside Information Governance, Equality Delivery and Patient Safety.

Deployment and use of health IT systems (DCB 0160)

Primary care - general practice, pharmacies, optometrists and dentists

PCNs and GP federations

Community care

Care homes

Social care

ICBs

ICSs

Experience

Artificial Intelligence

Ambient Voice Technology

All Age Continuing Care

CHIS

111

Digital First Primary Care

Order comms

Referral management

Docman

EPRs

Shared Care Records and Shared Care Plans

Clinical Content

Manufacture of health IT systems (DCB 0129)

Clinical content supplier

Risk stratification supplier

Care coordination supplier

Population health management

Business intelligence

Risk stratification