22 Jul 2026
CareDocs DSCR achieves compliance with DCB0129 clinical safety standard
CareDocs DSCR, the digital care recording and care planning platform from Care Management Systems Ltd, has achieved compliance with DCB0129, the national clinical risk management standard for health IT systems. The standard forms one of the requirements CareDocs DSCR has met in being listed on the NHS DSCR DPS Assured Solutions List for Digital Social Care Records.
DCB0129 sets out how a health IT supplier must identify, assess and manage clinical risk throughout the design, development and ongoing maintenance of its software. Meeting the standard means CareDocs DSCR has been through a formal clinical risk management process, with hazards to service user safety identified and mitigated before they reach a live care setting.
The compliance sits within a wider national push to raise the standards expected of digital social care records, alongside criteria such as GP Connect interoperability and the Minimum Operational Data Standard (MODS). For care providers, it offers independent assurance that the software underpinning their daily records has been assessed against a recognised clinical safety standard, rather than relying on a supplier’s own claims.
"Meeting DCB0129 isn’t a box-ticking exercise for us, it’s confirmation that the process we run behind the scenes is doing its job. Clinical safety is built into our software development lifecycle, not bolted on at the end. Any feature or functionality that materially changes the way care is recorded goes through a formal clinical risk assessment before it reaches our customers. Our customers are trusting us with the safety of the people they support, and this is one of the ways we show that trust is well placed."
Alan Pocock
Managing Director
Alan Pocock
Managing Director
About CareDocs:
Founded more than 18 years ago, CareDocs is a UK-based provider of digital care recording and care planning software for residential, nursing and domiciliary care providers. Developed by Care Management Systems Ltd, part of Software Circle Plc, CareDocs supports care providers with Digital Social Care Record (DSCR) tools designed around the day-to-day realities of delivering and evidencing care. Its products include CareDocs Local, CareDocs Cloud and CareDocs DSCR.
