IT & Microsoft cloud for medical & healthcare
Patient data protection, secure devices and compliant, resilient IT for healthcare providers.
Checked 4 October 2026. Built from the full sector page.
In short: DSPT evidence, shared clinical devices, and continuity when a clinical system goes down mid-session. Answer the DSPT from evidence rather than from memory, and start with the shared devices: between them those two account for most of what practices get wrong.
What changes in this sector
Medical and healthcare providers, GP practices, dental and private clinics, care providers and the organisations that supply them, hold special-category patient data under UK GDPR, and are expected to handle it in line with the Caldicott principles: using confidential information only when justified, sharing the minimum necessary, and treating the duty to share for care as equal to the duty to protect.
What we would do
Answer the DSPT from evidence rather than from memory, and start with the shared clinical devices. Those two things account for most of what a practice or clinic gets wrong, and both are fixable without disrupting a clinic list.
- If a clinical system going down mid-session is the fear, that is a continuity question rather than a security one, and it is answered by a tested restore time, not by another control.
- If you run several sites or branch surgeries, standardise the device build before adding anything. Inconsistent builds are what make every subsequent problem site-specific.
When we are not the answer: If your clinical systems are hosted and supported by their vendor, your DSPT is current and evidenced, and someone has restored from backup this year, you do not need this. That is a smaller list than most practices assume, which is why it is worth checking.
What we do for medical & healthcare
- Protect special-category patient data with layered security, encryption, least-privilege access and Caldicott-aligned data governance
- Cyber Essentials preparation and hands-on support completing and evidencing the annual NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT)
- Secure, compliant management of shared and clinical devices with Intune, so a shared room PC is still locked down and only compliant devices reach patient data
- Clinical-system availability planning and monitoring so systems stay up through clinic hours
- Advanced email security to defend against phishing and protect patient communication
- Monitored, tested backup and rapid recovery so access to records is never lost for long, supporting CQC expectations that records are secure, accurate and available
- Secure remote and multi-site access for clinical and administrative staff without exposing records to unmanaged kit
What the last 12 months looked like
Three questions people ask
Can you help us complete the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit?
Yes. The DSPT is one of the main reasons healthcare providers come to us.
How do you secure shared or clinical devices used by different staff?
Shared devices are a classic healthcare weak point. With Microsoft Intune we enrol, secure, patch and enforce compliance on every device, including shared room and clinical endpoints, so screens lock, disks are encrypted and updates are applied automatically.
How do you keep our clinical systems available during clinic hours?
By monitoring the systems clinicians actually depend on, scheduling maintenance and updates outside clinic hours where possible, and building in resilience and rapid recovery so a fault doesn't stop a clinic.
Ready to talk about your medical & healthcare IT?
A short call about how your IT works today and what your sector asks of it. We will tell you plainly where we would start.
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