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A worked DCB0160 record

Fernside Scribe is invented, and so is its supplier — we are not going to show you a real company's safety case. Everything else on this page is the real tool: the same statuses, the same scoring, the same risk matrix.

Why DCB0160 applies to your practice, and what the register does about it

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Fernside Scribe

Fernside Health (fictional)
Approved with an open risk
  • A deployment decision was recorded on 12 Mar 2026 (Approved).
  • Supplier DCB0129 status is recorded as "Claimed by supplier — not verified".
  • 11 of 15 assessment items are complete; 8 of 9 mandatory items are complete.
  • 1 open hazard sits at Significant and needs a named, justified acceptance.
  • The scheduled safety review is due in 3 months.
Purpose
Ambient voice technology — consultation note drafting
Deployment
Live
Deployed version
4.2
System owner
J. Hale (Practice Manager)
Safety oversight
Trained clinical safety officer
Supplier DCB0129
Claimed by supplier — not verified

The eight sections of the record

1 Supplier assurance Evidence reviewed
2 Local deployment 11 of 15 done
3 Hazards & controls 1 needs acceptance
4 Safety case 2 of 3 finalised
5 Approval & risk acceptance Approved 12 Mar
6 Monitoring & incidents No open incidents
7 Reviews & reassessment Due in 3 months
8 Audit history 86 entries

Read-only here. In the tool each of these opens as a working section, and the statuses are worked out from what you have recorded — not typed in by hand.

The risk matrix — use it now

This is the NHS 5×5 clinical risk matrix published with DCB0129 and DCB0160. It is a lookup table, not a multiplication — and that is not a detail. Severity × likelihood would score a possible death at Major severity and Very low likelihood as 4, and rank it below a likely inconvenience at 2 × 3 = 6. The published table is deliberately asymmetric: severity dominates.

Pick a square to see the band and what that band requires of you.

Severity (consequence) →
MinorSignificantConsiderableMajorCatastrophic
Very high
High
Medium
Low
Very low

One hazard, scored twice

Every hazard carries an initial score and a residual score. The distance between them is the argument a safety case makes — and it is invisible from one number, which is why a hazard log with a single column proves nothing.

HAZ-03 Drafted note carries a medication the patient did not mention
An inaccurate medication entry reaches the record and informs later care.
Before controls
High
Major severity · Medium likelihood
After controls
Moderate
Major severity · Very low likelihood
The controls that moved it
Every draft is reviewed and edited by the clinician before it is filed. The scribe cannot write to the record directly. Staff briefed that the draft is a starting point, not a transcript.

Note the severity did not change. Controls usually change how often something goes wrong, not how bad it is when it does — recording a reduced severity after controls is one of the commonest mistakes in a hazard log.

What the full register adds

The content is the part you are paying for, so it is not on this page — not even faintly. Here is its shape and size.

The 15-item DCB0160 assessment

Across five stages, nine of them mandatory, each with its own evidence field and guidance written from the standard.

12 supplier-evidence review questions

The questions that turn a supplier safety case you have filed into one you have actually assessed against your own deployment.

15 periodic review prompts

What has changed, whether the controls still hold, and whether the decision to deploy still stands.

Four generated draft documents

Clinical Risk Management Plan, hazard log, safety case report and a staff briefing — as editable Word files, built from your own record for your CSO to finish and sign.

The central DCB0129 register

19 suppliers and 59 published documents, curated by us, so adding a system fills itself in and its evidence can be filed in one click.

See the rest of it properly

A walkthrough is the honest way to show a tool like this — a page of screenshots cannot demonstrate a record built over weeks. We will run through a real deployment end to end and answer whatever your practice is actually stuck on.

This tool records your practice's clinical safety work — it does not perform it. Generated documents are drafts requiring review and sign-off by the person holding clinical safety oversight. Your organisation keeps its own duties under clinical safety, information governance and data protection; nothing recorded here transfers any of them.

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