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The Department of Health and Social Care will launch a consultation on the clinical risk standards for the use of digital health technologies in 2024/2025, the minister for patient safety has confirmed.
In a letter to Patient Safety Learning, Baroness Gillian Merron said there will be a review of standards DCB0129 and DCB0160, which provide guidelines to help healthcare providers manage and mitigate risks associated with healthcare IT systems.
She wrote to the charity in response its report, ‘Electronic patient record systems: Putting patient safety at the heart of implementation’, published on 31 July 2024, which sets out