Regulatory consultancy, compliance & training for health IT manufacturers and healthcare organisations

Welcome to Safehand

Every day our team of 16 Clinical Safety Officers assists more than 150 organisations with their compliance strategy.

For more information about the DCB 0129/0160 standards and how they work, visit our five minute guide.

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"We found our Safehand consultant to be extremely competent and knowledgeable and able to very quickly assimilate what our product was about.  We were pleasantly surprised how Safehand chose to make use of our own tools and ways of doing things. In building our Hazard Log and Safety Case, they didn’t try to re-invent the wheel or burden us with unnecessary paperwork."

Syd Stewart
Managing Director, 4S Dawn

The experience held by Safehand and their clear expertise in clinical safety and health tech has been fundamental in reaching DCB0129 compliance.  Safehand’s impact has been much wider than just compliance, it has woven clinical safety into all aspects of our product design, development, delivery and support. Safehand’s ability to rapidly understand the product, and how it is utilised in the real world is refreshing. The expertise brought by the team at Safehand has brought benefits not only to our organisation but every customer who uses an Inform Health product.

Andrew Denman
Product Director, Inform Health

Working with Safehand Consulting, and particularly our Clinical Safety Officer Lucy Birks, has been an outstanding experience. Lucy has been phenomenally helpful—pragmatic, calm, and highly skilled at rationalising and simplifying complex regulatory processes. She integrates into our ways of working, providing expert guidance without adding unnecessary burden. Safehand is a consulting firm that genuinely works with you, not just for you, ensuring clinical safety compliance is both achievable and embedded effectively within our organisation. We are grateful for their expertise and ongoing support.

Dr Laura Falvey
Executive Clinical Director, Reset Health and Roczen
Case Study

As an emerging digital agency venturing into healthcare software products, we found ourselves trying to navigate the complexities of the world of Clinical Safety and DCB0129 compliance. Safehand has proved to be an invaluable partner in this journey. Their meticulous approach and commitment to understanding our product ensures our compliance is robust and fit for purpose. Our nominated CSO, Lisa, guides us every step of the way, instilling the utmost confidence in us. We highly recommend Safehand for their professionalism, dedication, and expertise.

Tom Montgomery
Head of operations, Trauma App

Working with Safehand has been a pleasure from first contact with their Managing Director regarding developing a suite of documentation to ensure compliance with DCB0129 to our ongoing relationship with our Clinical Safety Officer contracted via Safehand. They not only have an excellent understanding of the legislative requirements, but have broad experience and knowledge of the healthcare sector which has helped us painlessly navigate our way through what is a complex process and requirement.

Joanne Ross
Business Manager, EPAQ Systems Ltd.

I would like to take the time to commend Safehand in general, and particularly Oyinkan for an outstanding job in helping the HomeSight solution get to DCB 0129 compliance satisfactorily. Oyinkan was thorough, and exercised awesome due diligence during the entire process, and the remarkable thing is that through her logical thought process and presenting material, always with “why an evidence, or control, or a process is required”, helped us to refine our thinking to bring in a “Clinical Safety” mindset and angle to whatever we do. While we had to work harder to fill the gaps in our documentation, processes and test scripts, we were doing it with vigour knowing that all these contribute to a stronger solution that can stand proud in the market.

Oyinkan is an absolute asset, and a real pleasure to work with. She put us at ease, while politely being firm on the requirements as should be the case. We are happy to retain her as the CSO and we are very pleased with Safehand in terms of the engagement.

Nav Kannan
SVP, Diversification Solutions, Vantiva

There is so much to unpack around clinical safety and DCB0129/DCB0160 compliance. Before working with Safehand this was a painfully complex space which organisationally we knew little about. We found it challenging to understand the processes and ways to implement across our organisation. Fast forward and with their help we are making inroads and for all the right reasons.

Safehand have made the experience genuinely positive, interesting and engaging - those are words that I never thought I would use to describe our approach to 'clinical safety'. Marvellously talented people and very kind at heart. A pleasure to work with. There is a reason they have such a good reputation. If you are stuck with clinical safety, give them a call today.

Andy Martin
National ICS Lead, Change Grow Live

“Working with Safehand has been a breath of fresh air in what can be a complex and detailed area. We are a very fast moving health tech company with a release schedule we work hard to maintain. Safehand have consistently demonstrated that they understand our process and are willing to work with us. They challenge us where appropriate but understand us, our culture and our mission. We feel confident that Safehand isn’t just offering us a cookie cutter service but it is truly bespoke. Everyone on the Safehand team is a delight to work with and incredibly knowledgeable. I would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone."

Chris Eldridge
Director of Operations, Mayden

Working with Safehand on our DCB0129 compliance was straightforward. The process was well established and robust. Our allocated CSO was an expert with real-world experience in our field and was able to quickly understand the product and its applications. We are very happy with the flexibility in supporting ongoing compliance.

Emily Baker
Business Development Manager, ITE Medical

As a small tech company, DCB0129 compliance was a daunting prospect for ShinyMind but Safehand have been extremely professional, informative, and helpful throughout the process. Their patience, flexibility and responsiveness have been particularly valued as our products have evolved and deadlines changed. Having Safehand as part of our team gives us real confidence as ShinyMind moves forward.

Jon Howard
Director, ShinyMind
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Our clients include...

ITE Medical
Synbiotix Solutions
Mindray
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Vital Signs Solutions Ltd
Accenda
Daysix
Klinik Healthcare Solutions UK
Medilogik
mTuitive UK
Butterfly Network
Fusion eCare Solutions
Patient Pass
Schappit
LMC Software Ltd
Genesis Automation Healthcare
Voice Connect
ServicePRO
Ortus Solutions
Alcidion
Current Health
Optellum Limited
Cleric Computer Services
Avegen
Ontex
Interactive Studios
EIDO Healthcare
University Hospital Southampton
Health Diagnostics
Materialise
Mindray
Technomed
Ontex
Visiba
4S Dawn
University Hospital Southampton
Ontex
Quantum Health Solutions
Soft Options
Wabalogic
Strata Health
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