Who made it
Dr Niraj Samani, a GP and Staffordshire Training Hub’s AI and Digital Health Ambassador, trained as a Clinical Safety Officer. It’s written for practice managers, partners and practice teams, to make the NHS clinical safety and data protection standards easier to understand and act on.
Who has checked it
- Clinical safety section and templatesReview by an independent Clinical Safety Officer: in progress.
- Information governance sectionReview by a Data Protection Officer: in progress.
- AI policy and explainersChecked against the published sources on each page by the author.
Reviewers will be named here once they’ve agreed. Until then, treat the site as a draft.
How it’s kept current
- Each page shows the date its sources were last checked.
- The whole site is reviewed every three months, and sooner when national guidance changes. See what’s changing.
- Where a page gives our view rather than published guidance, it says so.
Spotted a mistake?
Email niraj.samani@gpfirst.net with the page and what’s wrong. Corrections are made as soon as they’re checked, and listed below.
Changes
| Date | Version | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| 10 November 2026 | 0.9 (shorter) | Shorter version of the section pages, about half the length, keeping the visuals and templates. Made to compare against the full version. |
| 10 November 2026 | 0.8 | Site search back in the top bar, with key terms shown first. Information governance pages laid out more clearly: the rules as a pyramid, people cards for who does what, and an overlap diagram for clinical safety and data protection. |
| 9 November 2026 | 0.7 | Look up a term (glossary). National safety study added for context. Clinical safety process, after go-live and help pages made more visual. Detail pages now point back to the master checklist. Points from the Newton’s Tree clinical safety and AVTs webinar added to Help, the large language models explainer and the hazard workshop pack. |
| 9 November 2026 | 0.6 | DPIA template. Evidence columns in the hazard log. Templates page in the main menu. Copilot example updated to match NHS England guidance. |
| 9 November 2026 | 0.5 | Seven clinical safety templates (read, print or download). Disclaimer and privacy page. This page. |
| 6 November 2026 | 0.4 | AI policy section and explainers added. Medical device classes table. |
| 3 to 5 November 2026 | 0.3 | Information governance section added, then made more visual. |
| 3 November 2026 | 0.2 | Clinical safety section reorganised into six tabs and five stages after early feedback. Adopting a tool overview added. |
| 3 November 2026 | 0.1 | First draft of the clinical safety section. |
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