IT Support for Dental Practices UK: Security, Backup & Compliance
What a UK dental practice actually needs from an IT partner, counted rather than described: the practice management system and its vendor support boundary, the cone beam imaging curve sized against an eleven-year retention floor, the Data Security and Protection Toolkit broken down to the 45 mandatory evidence items a dentist carries against a GP practice’s 29, NHSmail and secure referral, backup and restore targets set per system, Microsoft 365 licensing costed three ways for a four-practice group, identity control in a room where four people share one screen, and what CQC Regulation 17, UK GDPR and IR(ME)R 2017 each demand of the IT estate. Ends with a weighted hundred-point buyer’s scorecard, a 90-day plan and a pass mark of 70.