What this toolkit is
General information and example documents to help general practice teams understand and apply the NHS clinical safety standards (DCB0129 and DCB0160), data protection requirements, and good practice for AI tools.
What it isn’t
- It isn’t legal, clinical or professional advice. It doesn’t replace your Clinical Safety Officer, your Data Protection Officer, your ICB, or your indemnity provider. Your CSO signs off your practice’s own clinical safety work, and your practice remains responsible for its decisions.
- It isn’t official NHS guidance. Where it summarises guidance, it links to the original. If the two differ, the original is right.
- It may not be up to date. National guidance changes. Each page shows when its sources were last checked. Check the source before relying on a detail.
The templates
The templates and the example AI policy are drafts written for this toolkit, and are being reviewed by a Clinical Safety Officer. You’re free to copy and adapt them for your own practice. Adapt them before use: an unchanged template doesn’t describe your practice. Oakfield Surgery and everyone named in the examples are made up.
Suppliers and other organisations
Products, suppliers and services are named only as examples or to explain guidance. Naming them isn’t an endorsement by the author or by Staffordshire Training Hub. Material from other organisations is linked, not copied, and stays theirs. See sources and permissions.
Liability
The toolkit is provided in good faith, as it is. As far as the law allows, the author and Staffordshire Training Hub accept no liability for any loss or harm arising from its use. Nothing here limits liability that can’t be limited by law.
Privacy
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- What you type stays in your browser. The AI policy builder and the CQC checklist remember your entries on your own device only, so you don’t lose them. Nothing is sent to us. Clearing your browser’s site data removes them.
- Third parties. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, and the site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Like any web service, they receive basic technical information such as your IP address when the page loads.
- Don’t enter patient information into any part of this site.
Contact
Questions or corrections: niraj.samani@gpfirst.net.