We started Govanta Compliance because the healthcare providers we work with deserve regulatory partners who have actually done the job – not auditors who've only read about it.
Govanta Compliance was founded by Dr Jonathan Andrews, a UK clinician who had stood up new services, registered with CQC, and sat on the other side of the table on inspection day. Jonathan had seen first-hand the gap between what traditional compliance consultancies deliver – thick folders, templated policies, box-ticking audits – and what healthcare operators actually need: clear answers, pragmatic tools, and a partner who understands the business of running a modern clinical service.
To date we have supported more than 35 clinics and services across 20+ specialist sectors – from physical sites, diagnostic centres and multi-speciality hospitals to telemedicine platforms, hybrid providers, and some of the fastest-growing corners of private healthcare in the UK. We work selectively so every client gets senior, clinician-led attention.
Most compliance consultancies are built around templates and audit checklists. We're built around service models. Before we write a single policy, we spend time understanding how your service actually runs – what your clinicians do on a Tuesday morning, how your technology fits into the care pathway, where the real risks live.
That means the documents we produce get used. The policies are recognisable to your staff. The governance frameworks fit the way your leadership already meets. And the evidence packs are ready when CQC arrives, because they were never just for CQC – they were for running a safer service.
Every engagement begins with a scoping conversation. We'll ask about your model of care, your regulatory position, and what "done" looks like for you. If we think we're the right partner, we'll come back with a clear scope, a fixed timeline, and a named senior lead. If we don't think we're the right fit, we'll tell you that too, and point you in a better direction.
We keep our team small and senior. You won't be handed off to a junior consultant. The person you meet on the scoping call is the person you'll work with. We also work alongside the practice management and compliance platforms our clients already run on, so the evidence CQC asks for comes out of your day-to-day systems rather than a separate paper exercise.
Good regulation makes healthcare safer. We take that seriously. We don't help providers hide problems or game inspections – we help them run genuinely safer, better-governed services, and document that in a way regulators can trust. That's the only kind of work we're interested in.
Clinician. Operator. Regulatory partner.
Known to clients as Johnny, Dr Jonathan Andrews is the founder of Govanta Compliance and the senior lead on every engagement. He has been a UK medical doctor since 2015, and his background sits at the intersection of clinical practice, healthcare operations, and the fast-moving world of digital health – a vantage point that shapes how Govanta thinks about regulation.
Alongside Govanta he holds medical director, non-executive director and clinical director roles across UK healthtech companies, which keeps him close to the commercial and product realities his clients are working within, not just the regulatory ones.
Jonathan started Govanta Compliance after watching too many good providers get let down by generic consultancies that didn't understand their model of care. He believes compliance should be scaffolding around a service, not a tax on it – and that the best regulatory work comes from people who have actually run regulated services themselves.
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UK medical doctor since 2015. Leads every Govanta engagement, with particular depth in digital health, online prescribing, and the specialist sectors where regulatory nuance matters most. Also holds medical director, non-executive director and clinical director roles across UK healthtech.
A UK-registered doctor, Sophie consults on clinical governance, clinical audit and quality improvement, and on engagements involving children's and young people's services – where safeguarding, consent and escalation get the closest scrutiny.
Her NHS track record is a run of measurable change: a referral system redesign that won a regional quality improvement award, an admissions proforma that took documented capacity assessment from 0% to 94% and risk assessment from 10% to 74%, and a grand round documentation project that moved compliance from 12.5% to 100% across two re-audits. Evidencing improvement that way is precisely what CQC's well-led domain asks providers to demonstrate, and it is what she brings to audit and governance work on Govanta engagements.
Sophie holds MRCPCH, trained in medicine at St George's, University of London, and read Psychology at UCL. She is GCP trained, has acted as Principal Investigator on a national research study, and holds Child Protection level 3.
We support providers across physical, digital and hybrid models of care – with particular depth in the fastest-growing corners of private healthcare.
