Digital clinical safety

This service provides clinical safety assurance for health IT systems used across NHS England programmes and the wider health and adult social care sector in England. It ensures that digital systems meet mandatory clinical safety standards, helping care professionals deliver safer, better patient care.

The service is designed for:

• manufacturers of health-related software
• health and social care providers using digital systems

You can access the service by contacting the Digital Clinical Informatics Safety team via email (see Contact us below).

The service supports organisations in meeting clinical safety requirements by:

• managing and overseeing the safety assurance of nationally developed or specified health IT products, ensuring that manufacturers and other organisations comply with the mandated Clinical Risk Management Standards
• helping organisations engage with the Clinical Safety Group (CSG) and the provision of Clinical Authority to Release (CATR) certificates where the system requires one
• provision of Clinical Risk Management training to manufacturers  and care organisations to reinforce organisational safety culture and establish competence in clinical risk management
• managing the publication and maintenance of the two Clinical Risk Management Standards

Email the Digital Clinical Informatics Safety team: [email protected].

For more details on clinical safety standards and guidance, visit the Digital Clinical Informatics Safety Team NHS Futures site.