The Data Security and Protection Toolkit is an online self-assessment tool that allows health and social organisations to measure their performance against the National Data Guardian’s 10 data security standards.
All organisations that have access to NHS patient data and systems must use this toolkit to provide assurance that they are practising good data security and that personal information is handled correctly. We have aligned Service Assurance against the compliance and governance questions to ensure that companies are 100% compliant against the criteria set in the DSPT. It is no longer viable to simply answer just yes or no to the questions set, but supporting evidence is now needed for every question too.
Service Assurance allows clients to complete the questions in absolute confidence with both evidence and an audit trail of activity over a previous period.
