Digital Clinical Informatics Safety Team

The Digital Clinical Informatics Safety Team promote and ensure that effective clinical risk management is carried out by organisations that are responsible for developing and using health IT systems.

We are a multi-disciplinary team made up of Safety Engineers and Clinical Safety Officers. The team are based across our Leeds and London offices.

The Digital Clinical Informatics Safety Team provides a clinical safety assurance service, across the whole of NHS England's programmes, and to the wider health and social care service in England. We ensure that the health IT used by care professionals is safe and that organisations have met requirements stated in the two Clinical Safety standards. These standards have been mandatory since the Health and Social Care act 2012. Ultimately, this helps health and care staff to provide better, safer patient care.

The Digital Clinical Safety Informatics Team is responsible for:

• managing and overseeing the assurance of safety related health IT software, ensuring manufacturers  and other organisations meet the required safety standards
• ensuring that all safety related risks associated with a health IT system are actively managed and that appropriate mitigations are applied
• helping customers engage with the Clinical Safety Group (CSG) and the provision of Clinical Authority to Release (CATR) certificates where the system requires one
• managing live safety incidents
• provision of Clinical Risk Management training to manufacturers  and care organisations to reinforce organisational safety culture and establish competence in clinical risk management 

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