Before a trust or ICB takes your software into NHS care, it asks for your clinical safety case and DTAC pack and checks your Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) result. Naq holds your hazard log and safety case in one record, beside a DTAC for each product.



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The problem
A release that changes clinical risk has to be written into the hazard log and the safety case before a trust asks. The Clinical Safety Officer who signs them off may be part-time or brought in from outside.
The outcome
When the Clinical Safety Officer role changes hands, the hazard log and every sign-off on it remain in Naq.
How Naq helps
Each hazard is logged against a product with its causes and scored on a 5×5 matrix before and after controls.
Hold a separate DTAC for each product, each with its own scope and schedule.
Every change to the hazard log or safety case is flagged for sign-off by your Clinical Safety Officer, a registered clinician. The sign-off is recorded in your Naq record.
Start your Clinical Risk Management Plan and Clinical Safety Case Report from templates, and import the hazard log you already keep.
Choose the frameworks you are measured against and the scope each one covers. One control meets requirements in several frameworks, so the work is done once. Evidence checks run on a schedule, and a control drops back to needs review when its evidence expires.
Start from a template already mapped to your frameworks. Your organisation’s details fill in, you submit it for approval, and the approved version goes to everyone who must read and acknowledge it. Naq reopens it on its review date.
Track suppliers and who has access to each one. Score every risk before and after treatment and set its review date. Log incidents with what happened, then follow each corrective action through to closed.
Ask a question and Naq Assistant looks up your own records before it answers. It suggests which controls a policy supports and drafts DPIAs from your workspace. It only works when someone asks, and nothing is applied until a person approves it.
If the hazard log sits in a spreadsheet and the DTAC answers sit in a document, each trust request starts with gathering them.
The clinical safety standard for health IT manufacturers.
The assessment criteria for any digital product entering the NHS, with version 2 live since February 2026.
The toolkit NHS suppliers publish against each year.
Medical device certification under MDR, UKCA or ISO 13485 sits outside Naq.
Some decisions need a person with their name on them: a Clinical Safety Officer signing off a hazard log, a DPO reviewing a transfer clause. Whoever holds the role records their review or sign-off inside your Naq record, so every decision stays in the audit trail.
Invite your in-house or outsourced specialist as a user and assign them the named role. Naq routes the reviews and approvals that need them, and their review or sign-off is recorded against the record.
Naq partners with specialist firms who take on the named role for you. Meet them before you commit. They work inside your Naq workspace, alongside your team.

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Otesa, NHS supplierThe demo starts with its hazard log and DTAC pack.