Data Security and Protection Toolkit and NHS mail
The Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) is a really helpful, annual self-assessment for health and care organisations.
It shows you what you need to do to keep people’s information safe, and to protect your business from the risk of a data breach or a cyber-attack.
Once you’ve completed the DSPT, it will help you demonstrate, to the people you support, your commissioners, GPs and other NHS services, that you are handling information securely. It is a pre-requisite for access to NHS systems, including NHSmail and Proxy Access to GP records. NHSX are announcing two changes in relation to the DSPT for adult social care providers