Protection
Protection
Governance, risk, safety, standards, and the regulatory ground under any credible AI deployment.
You cannot move fast if you have not laid this floor first.
Fireside Chat: What Happens to Learning When AI Accelerates Everything
An honest conversation with ADA educators about the human side of AI adoption—what we got right, what we nearly missed, and why oversight matters.
Read more →The Five Safes Framework
Designed to help organisations make decisions about access to sensitive data: safe projects, safe people, safe data, safe settings, safe outputs. Developed by the ONS and now the backbone of Secure Data Environments and Trusted Research Environments across the NHS.
Read more →DCB0129 - Clinical Risk Management: Manufacture of Health IT
The clinical safety standard that applies to any health IT system whose malfunction or misuse could harm a patient. Covers clinical safety cases, hazard logs, and the requirement for a designated Clinical Safety Officer. Applies to most AI tools entering clinical pathways.
Read more →DCB0160 - Clinical Risk Management: Deployment of Health IT
The deploying organisation's counterpart to DCB0129. NHS trusts accepting health IT systems must conduct their own clinical safety assessment in their own context - they cannot simply accept the vendor's safety case. Most organisations do not know they hold this obligation.
Read more →NHS AI Information Governance Guidance
NHS England's guidance on information governance for AI - covering data protection obligations, transparency requirements, and accountability frameworks specific to health and care settings. The bit most AI projects in the NHS skip until legal asks why they skipped it. Essential reading before any AI system touches patient data.
Read more →A Guide to Using AI in the Public Sector
The UK government's practical guidance for public sector organisations adopting AI - covering how to identify opportunities, assess readiness, procure responsibly, and govern deployment. Written for decision-makers rather than technologists. Useful framing for NHS and government bodies navigating AI adoption without a clear internal playbook.
Read more →EU AI Act
The world's first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence - risk-tiered, with outright prohibitions at the top and lighter obligations for minimal-risk systems. Healthcare AI sits firmly in the high-risk category. If you are deploying AI in a clinical or regulated setting, this is not optional reading: it is the compliance baseline that will shape procurement, governance, and accountability across the NHS and beyond.
Read more →PESTLE Analysis
A structured lens for reading the environment an organisation operates in: Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal, Environmental. Simple in concept, deceptively powerful in practice. Most strategy work skips it - which is why most strategies fail to anticipate the conditions they land in. Essential groundwork before any AI adoption plan that expects to survive contact with reality.
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