NHS Digital Clinical Safety Team
Resource Development

NHS Digital’s Clinical Safety Team ensures that nationally-provided Health IT systems and local systems connecting to NHS infrastructure are clinically safe and fit for purpose. We are a team made up of experienced clinicians and specialist engineers.

We provide a national safety assurance service for health and social care IT systems and provide training in the principles of clinical risk management. The training is structured around the requirements of DCB 0129 and 0160 and aims to help organisations understand and embed supporting processes and techniques into their ways of working. Taught modules on key activities, such as hazard identification, risk assessment, risk control and safety case report writing are reinforced through practical workshops. Annual ‘refresher’ courses are run by NHS Digital to encourage networking amongst organisations, sharing lessons learnt and considering new technology.

We aim to work in partnership, where feasible, with organisations that have an interest in clinical and patient safety, to share lessons learnt and to work collaboratively, ensuring or limiting repetition, where possible.