Accredited Clinician – An individual who has attended the NHS Digital training course on clinical risk management. Attending the course is one means of evidencing that an individual is suitably qualified and experienced to undertake activities under DCB 0129 and DCB 0160. Alternative courses exist which can also be used to evidence competency. Safehand provides expert consultancy […]
Read MoreAdrian Stavert-Dobson - Managing Partner of Safehand Consulting Limited and Author of Health Information Systems: Managing Clinical Risk. LinkedIn profile. Safehand provides expert consultancy services to manage clinical risk in health IT systems, maintain patient safety and comply with standards DCB 0129 and DCB 0160. www.safehand.co.uk.
Read MoreClinical Risk Management Plan - One of the three documents that manufacturers and healthcare organisations are required to create when they design and implement health IT systems. The document (often simply called the 'Plan') sets out the activities which a manufacturer or healthcare organisation intends to undertake in order to assure the system and proactively […]
Read MoreClinical Risk Management System (CRMS) – A set of policies, methods and techniques developed by an organisation to specify how clinical risk will be managed in either the manufacture or implementation of a health IT system. The definition and documentation of a CRMS is a requirement of DCB 0129 and DCB 0160. Safehand provides expert consultancy […]
Read MoreClinical Safety Case Report – One of the three documents that manufacturers and healthcare organisations are required to create when they design and implement health IT systems. The Safety Case (as it is often referred to) presents the evidence and argument which justifies the claim that a system, in a given operating environment, is acceptably […]
Read MoreClinical Safety Officer (CSO) – A clinician nominated by an organisation to oversee the safety assessment of a health IT system. The presence of a CSO to govern a clinical risk management project is a requirement of DCB 0129 and DCB 0160. The CSO must hold a current registration with a professional body such as […]
Read MoreDCB 0129, Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Manufacture of Health IT Systems - A mandatory UK safety standard describing a set of assurance activities for manufacturers of health IT systems to manage clinical risk. The current version of the standard was issued by HSCIC (now NHS Digital) in 2013 and is enforced by NHS […]
Read MoreDCB 0160, Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems - A mandatory UK safety standard describing a set of assurance activities for healthcare organisations to manage clinical risk in the health IT systems they implement. The current version of the standard was issued by HSCIC (now NHS Digital) in 2013 and […]
Read MoreHazard – A situation which could give rise to patient harm. For example, if a health IT system were to confuse the records belonging to two different patients, a clinician could be misled and provide inappropriate clinical care. Safehand provides expert consultancy services to manage clinical risk in health IT systems, maintain patient safety and […]
Read MoreHazard Log – One of the three documents that manufacturers and healthcare organisations are required to create when they design and implement health IT systems. The document sets out the hazard, causes, controls and impacts associated with operating a health IT system. The Hazard Log is a key component of the Clinical Safety Case Report […]
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