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Understanding DCB0129 & DCB0160

DCB0129 and DCB0160 in plain English - what each standard covers, who owns which one, the artefacts you'll be asked for, and how a manufacturer's safety case feeds a deploying organisation's own risk assessment.

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AI Will Not Make Healthcare Safer by Default

A new research agenda from 18 experts names six knowledge gaps in AI diagnostic safety - and every one of them sits upstream of a UK hazard log.

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Why Most AI Clinical Safety Cases Miss the Point

DCB0129 compliance is not the same as clinical safety. Here is why the gap matters - and what good looks like.

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An Absence of Reported Incidents Is Not Evidence of Safety

A concept prototype for a UK Healthcare AI Safety Registry - and an open call for challenge from anyone working in patient safety, clinical safety or informatics.

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Who Owns the Risk When an AI Scribe Writes Something Nobody Said?

HSSIB has launched a national investigation into ambient voice technology in hospitals. The timeline means boards deploying AVT this year won't have the evidence before they need the answer.

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We Recruit for Values. Then an AI Tool Arrives and None of That Applies.

My piece in Nursing Times argues nurses should be in the room when a decision is made about which AI joins the team - not handed the result and asked to make it work.

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Grounding AI Governance in What NHS Organisations Already Know

A Values-Anchored Framework for Trustworthy AI Conduct in Practice - why sustainable AI governance starts with the values NHS organisations have already co-produced.

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