2024-2025 Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) submission deadline 30 June 2025
FOI: Practice Managers, GP practice DSPT Leads
A reminder that your GP practice’s 2024-2025 Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) must be submitted before and no later than 30 June 2025. All practices are required to complete the DSPT on time and must achieve the minimum compliance level ‘Standards Met’ (by answering all the mandatory DSPT evidence items under category 4).
If you haven’t already started on the DSPT work, please commence now so you have enough time to carry out a review and update all mandatory evidence items before the deadline. Please contact your practice Information Governance Lead, Data Protection Officer or GP IT Facilitator if you need any help with completing the DSPT.
NHS England DSPT training dates
Anyone new to completing the DSPT or requiring a refresh, we highly recommend that you attend one of the following NHS England DSPT webinar sessions:
- Thursday 17 April 2025 12.30-13.30
- Thursday 22 May 2025 12.30-13.30
- Thursday 19 June 2025 12.30-13.30
For joining details, please click on the News page link and go to the webinars section for Dentists, GP, Local Authority, Opticians, Other (including charities and NHS business partners), Pharmacist and University (including researcher and secondary use): News (dsptoolkit.nhs.uk).
NHS NEL GP DPO help guides – SharePoint site
As we did last year, we have published DSPT help guides on our SharePoint site: A3A8R_GPDSPT – Home (sharepoint.com). If you don’t have access, please click on the link to submit your request: A3A8R_GPDSPT – Home (sharepoint.com).
The help guides contain useful links, templates and advice on how to comply with the DSPT evidence items. Please note any evidence items that require information from the NEL ICB GP IT team have been collated and included in the help guides.
GP practices that don’t use the NEL GP DPO service, you should seek guidance from your practice’s Information Governance Lead or Data Protection Officer for advice and templates, but you are welcome to use our help guides. Please use our SharePoint site to access the NEL ICB GP IT evidence that you will need for your DSPT submission.
Also on the SharePoint site, there is a general DSPT help page: Data Security and Protection Toolkit Support (sharepoint.com) which contains links to NHS England’s DSPT guidance, training material and general tips on how to get started on the DSPT work.
If you were unable to attend our DSPT updates on 13 March and 20 March, you may wish watch the recaps: Recap: Monthly Focus: NEL GP DPO’s guide to the 2024-2025 Data Security and Protection Toolkit 13 March and Recap: Monthly Focus: Complying with the Accountability Principle under the UK General Data Protection Regulation 20 March.
NEL ICB GP IT evidence
We have collated the evidence on your behalf and published the information in our help guides on our SharePoint site – you can download or copy and paste the information for your DSPT submission. If you don’t have access to the SharePoint site, please click on the link to submit your request: A3A8R_GPDSPT – Home (sharepoint.com).
NEL ICB Support
If you have any questions about the DSPT or the GP IT evidence, please raise a service desk ticket with the NHS NEL Service Desk at Itservicedesk.nelicb@nhs.net or 0300 303 6778. Please mark your request with “FAO NEL GP DPO – DSPT Query”.