The Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) is a helpful online annual self-assessment for health and care organisations. 

As a care provider, the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (covering both paper and digital records) shows you how to keep people’s information safe, protect your business from a data breach or a cyber-attack, and help to reassure everyone that you take data security seriously.

All organisations must complete the assessment in order to access NHS patient data and systems, and all CQC-registered care providers should complete the DSPT at least once a year. 

 

Person Centred Software is committed to delivering a high standard of data security to help ensure personal records and sensitive information held in the Digital Social Care Record System are kept secure and protected on a robust platform.

 

Person Centred Software is NHS DSP-T certified, which verifies we use the Data Security and Protection Toolkit provided by the NHS to ensure we are handling personal patient information correctly and demonstrating good data security measures are in place.

 

All staff at Person Centred Software also undergo yearly NHS Digital Data Security Awareness training to ensure that everyone in the organisation understands the importance of Data Security, that confidential data is stored and handled appropriately and that everyone understands their obligations to ensure sensitive information is safe and to avoid data breaches. 

 

Chris Egan, Chief Technology Officer at Person Centred Software

"We use Microsoft Azure to store our data, where everything is geo-replicated and backed up instantly to multiple servers; this means our digital social care record system's data storage is fully resilient with no single point of failure.

Furthermore, we are compliant with the 14 NHS Digital Social Care Record (DSCR) standards, ensuring that our system's standards are fit for purpose and can be implemented without becoming a burden to users".

 

 

 

How to complete the DSPT?

You may feel confident completing the DSPT yourself - but if you need help, you can access free support from the Better Security, Better Care programme, where teams of Local Support Partners across England provide direct support and advice.

The Better Security, Better Care programme covers paper and digital records and focuses on helping care providers to complete the Data Security and Protection Toolkit. 

Please click here for more information on the Data Security and Protection Toolkit.