Clinical safety for NHS primary care
Your practice just deployed AI. Who signed off the clinical safety?
Every digital system used in NHS care carries clinical risk obligations under DCB0129 and DCB0160 — standards that are mandatory under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. SafeDeploy makes those obligations achievable for GP practices, dental practices and the suppliers who sell to them.
- Founded and run by a GDC-registered dentist
- NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, Cohort 8
- Four products built and safety-cased under DCB0129
- Company no. 13667511
Your supplier’s compliance is not your compliance
DCB0129 binds the company that built your clinical software. DCB0160 binds you — the practice deploying it. Your supplier cannot assess the safety of your specific deployment, in your building, with your staff and your workflows.
As practices adopt AI scribes, digital consent and patient-facing tools, those duties arrive with the software. Very few GP or dental practices have a hazard log, a clinical risk management plan, or a named Clinical Safety Officer. We built SafeDeploy because we had to do this ourselves, four times over, for our own products.
| Question | DCB0129 | DCB0160 |
|---|---|---|
| Who does it bind? | DCB0129The organisation that manufactures the health IT. | DCB0160The organisation that deploys it in care. |
| Who is that, in practice? | DCB0129Your software supplier. | DCB0160Your GP practice or dental practice. |
| What makes it mandatory? | DCB0129Section 250, Health and Social Care Act 2012. | DCB0160Section 250, Health and Social Care Act 2012. |
| Named Clinical Safety Officer? | DCB0129Required. Must be a registered healthcare professional. | DCB0160Required. Must be a registered healthcare professional. |
| Which artefacts? | DCB0129Clinical Risk Management Plan, Hazard Log, Clinical Safety Case Report. | DCB0160The same three, written for your deployment rather than the product. |
What we build
Four products, all developed under DCB0129. SafeDeploy is the one we sell to practices and suppliers; the other three are the products whose safety cases we wrote first.
SafeDeploy
Clinical safety, productised, for NHS primary care.
Hazard logs, risk analysis and Clinical Safety Case Reports that stay current as your software changes. DCB0129 for suppliers, DCB0160 for the GP and dental practices deploying them.
Read moreNotes-Hub
Template-driven clinical notes.
For dentists, hygienists and therapists. Built under DCB0129.
Read moreReferral processing
Structured referral letters from the clinical record.
Generated from information the clinician has already recorded, for the clinician to review and approve.
Read moreOral Health Info
Free multilingual patient education.
Including guidance for people with special educational needs and disabilities, and for people waiting for treatment.
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Why a practising clinician built this
A Clinical Safety Officer must be a registered healthcare professional in current clinical practice. Our founder is a GDC-registered dentist who has taken four products through DCB0129 herself, in a primary care setting.
The standards aren’t abstract to us — we’ve done the paperwork, in a practice, under the same constraints you have.