What is a Clinical Safety Officer?
What is a Clinical Safety Officer?
A Clinical Safety Officer (sometimes called a CSO safety officer) ensures that robust clinical risk management is promoted and adopted by organisations that deploy, develop, or modify Health IT Systems.
DCB1060 refers to the NHS’s standard for Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems. The DCB1060 standard applies to healthcare organisations responsible for deploying, using, maintaining, or decommissioning Health IT Systems in a health and care environment.
DCB1029 refers to the NHS’s standard for Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Manufacture of Health IT Systems. The DCB1029 standard applies to organisations responsible for developing and maintaining Health IT Systems for use in a health and care environment.
Clinical Safety Officer Requirements
DCB1060 and DCB1029 require organisations to have a suitably qualified and experienced Clinical Safety Officer. Compliance with DCB1060 and DCB1029 is mandatory under the Health and Social care Act 2012.
The NHS Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) requires your organisation to have a named Clinical Safety Officer. Your organisation’s Clinical Safety Officer will need to be a registered healthcare professional that has undertaken appropriate Clinical Safety Officer training.
Your organisation may appoint an internal Clinical Safety Officer if it has someone that is suitably qualified or may choose to select an external outsourced Clinical Safety Officer through a managed CSO services provider.
Clinical Safety Officer Qualifications
Only qualified Clinical Safety Officers should be tasked with assessing and managing clinical risk in Health IT Systems.
To meet the requirements of the DCB1060 and DCB1029 standards, a Clinical Safety Officer must be a registered healthcare professional that has undertaken Clinical Safety Officer training.
The seriousness of a Clinical Safety Officer’s responsibilities is such that it is imperative that any Clinical Safety Officer training undertaken should be aligned with DCB1060 and DCB1029 best practices.
Clinical Safety Officer Qualifications
Only qualified Clinical Safety Officers should be tasked with assessing and managing clinical risk in Health IT Systems.
To meet the requirements of the DCB1060 and DCB1029 standards, a Clinical Safety Officer must be a registered healthcare professional that has undertaken Clinical Safety Officer training.
The seriousness of a Clinical Safety Officer’s responsibilities is such that it is imperative that any Clinical Safety Officer training undertaken should be aligned with DCB1060 and DCB1029 best practices.
How our CSO services help
IG-Smart Ltd.’s CSO services are designed to help your organisation by providing you with the following:
- Access to a designated highly experienced and qualified Clinical Safety Officer and our wider team of expert Clinical Safety Officers.
- All the advice and support you need to ensure NHS DCB1029, DCB1060, and DTAC compliance, where appropriate.
- Clinical Safety Officer training to build your organisation’s internal clinical safety capabilities and capacity.
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