TIAN News - Winter 2025
We’re pleased to bring you the latest edition of the Internal Audit Network Newsletter — your go-to source for insights, updates, and best practices in the world of internal audit. In this issue, we spotlight key developments, share thought leadership from across the network, and highlight tools and techniques that are shaping the future of audit.
Whether you're navigating regulatory changes, enhancing risk management, or driving audit innovation, we’re here to keep you informed and connected.
Louise Cobain, MIAA Executive Director of Assurance and TIAN Vice Chair
Headlines:
From Analogue to Digital: Internal Audit’s Role in Securing the NHS Transformation
From the NHS App to AI-enabled diagnostics and digital patient records, technology now shapes every corner of the NHS. Yet innovation brings exposure e.g. risks around data security, cyber resilience, algorithmic bias and blurred accountability. This makes internal audit central to the assurance landscape of the modern NHS.
Audit Yorkshire Mentoring Scheme Evaluation: Insights and Outcomes
Mentoring is defined as the provision of assistance by one person to another in a
relationship of trust outside of the line management relationship, that effectively enables the recipient to learn, develop their abilities and enhance their potential in line with personal objectives.
ASW Assurance Report - Themed Learning
ASW Assurance have produced a report on their work surrounding Themed Learning
2025/26 MIAA Insight - Data Quality Reviews Benchmarking
During 2024/25 MIAA reviewed data quality systems and processes in line with NHS England guidelines across our clients. This Insight highlights key themes identified from this work.
Salary Overpayments Benchmarking Providers
This report compares the salary overpayments of 35 organisations across the Midlands, Yorkshire and the North-West, being 18 acute and 15 non-acute providers and two ambulance services. We reviewed gross salary overpayments data for the financial years 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25.
