Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of how many and what proportion providers of IT clinical settings are compliant with the information standard DBC0129 on clinical risk management.

All health IT system providers working with the National Health Service are expected to meet the DCB0129 standard. Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, it is the responsibility of local NHS providers to assess the supplier and confirm the system meets the DCB0129 standard. To deploy the system responsibly, the NHS organisation would need to review the suppliers Clinical Safety Case Report and determine that the system met the DCB0129 standard.

There is currently no central assessment of the proportion of provider conformity with the information standard DCB0129. From April 2022, NHS organisations will be required to report on their compliance with the Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) for all digital health technologies and clinical systems used in the organisation. The DTAC standards include compliance with the DCB0129 clinical risk management standard, therefore this assurance process will collect the proportion of providers which are compliant in future.