DCB0160 checklist for ICBs, PCNs, GP practices and trusts

If your organisation rolls out a digital system into clinical care, DCB0160 applies to you. That includes clinical systems, online consultation tools, remote monitoring, shared care records, and AI tools such as ambient voice scribes. Size does not matter: a single PCN has the same duty as a large trust.

Step by step

• 1. Appoint a named Clinical Safety Officer, a registered clinician trained in clinical risk management
• 2. Put a proportionate Clinical Risk Management System in place, approved by senior leadership
• 3. Request the supplier's DCB0129 Safety Case, Hazard Log and CSO details
• 4. Write a Deployment Clinical Risk Management Plan for this system
• 5. Run hazard workshops with clinicians, admin staff, IT and the supplier
• 6. Build a Deployment Hazard Log covering workflow, configuration, training, integration and patient groups
• 7. Agree controls and owners, and test them before go live
• 8. Produce a Deployment Clinical Safety Case Report signed by your CSO
• 9. Go live with a safety incident process that feeds back into the Hazard Log
• 10. Review the safety case at every upgrade, configuration change or new site

Typical deployment hazards

• Wrong patient record selected or results filed against the wrong patient
• Tasks or messages missed because of new workflows
• Data not flowing between integrated systems
• Staff not trained or using workarounds
• AI outputs accepted without clinical review

No CSO? You are not alone

Many ICBs, PCNs and practices do not have a clinical safety subject matter expert, or the time to do this work. DigiSafe provides named deployer CSOs on retainer, ready made templates and hazard workshops, so deployments go live safely and on time.

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