DPO Services

Medical Data Guard’s outsourced Data Protection Officer service provides flexible, tailored support, expert advice, and comprehensive data protection management to your pharmacy or dental practice.
Discover how we can help protect your data today.

A DPO doesn’t need to be a full-time role, but it requires specialist expertise in data protection. Engaging an experienced and knowledgeable outsourced DPO is a cost-effective solution to enhance your information security and ensure compliance with data protection laws such as the GDPR.

Failing to adequately protect personal data can lead to significant regulatory penalties, such as fines from the UK’s ICO, and may also damage your organisation’s reputation. By following proven best practices, an outsourced independent DPO helps safeguard the data processed about your customers, suppliers, and employees, while keeping you informed, advised, and ready to cooperate with regulators when necessary.

Why Choose a Data Protection Officer from Medical Data Guard

Our outsourced service provides you with a highly experienced DPO who can work on-site or remotely as an integral part of your team. You benefit from a knowledgeable, hands-on professional who is expert in pharamcy and dental practice GDPR compliance and who takes on the DPO responsibilities in a cost-effective manner.

Account Management

Your DPO’s activities are monitored and managed by Medical Data Guard’s experienced project delivery team. This ensures your DPO’s focus remains on delivering value, without consuming your management team’s time or diverting their attention.

Client Services

The quality of our service is overseen by our Head of Client Services, who ensures that our delivery remains structured, coordinated, and of the highest standard. This oversight removes the overhead, risks, and distractions that internal resources might otherwise face, allowing your team to concentrate on further developing your organisation.

Schedule of Works

Our DPOs follow a tried-and-tested Schedule of Works, developed through extensive experience with a diverse range of clients. Each duty links back to the GDPR’s 7 principles, enabling us to demonstrate compliance clearly and report on how risks are being mitigated and levels of compliance are improving over time.

Model Documentation

By partnering with Medical Data Guard, you gain access to our evolving repository of processes and proven model documentation. Your assigned DPO makes use of these tried-and-tested resources, tailoring them to your specific requirements rather than creating new documentation from scratch, saving you time and effort.
Primary and Secondary DPOs.

Advice Line

Our ‘continuous support framework’ includes an advice line service. This provides you with access to our wider DPO team on days when your nominated DPO is unavailable. Acting as a ‘concierge’, the advice line offers direct answers or escalates queries to your DPOs for more detailed responses. Most importantly, the issues become our responsibility to resolve, not yours.

Cost-Effective Operating Expense

You only pay for the DPO’s time when you need it, avoiding the costs associated with ongoing training, benefits packages, absences, holidays, sickness, and employment liabilities.

Expert Guidance & Informed Decision-Making

With extensive knowledge of numerous data protection and cybersecurity platforms, tools, vendors, and software solutions, our DPOs provide informed guidance, reduce decision-making time, and help you make better choices.

Key Benefits:

Highly Cost-Effective
Pay only for the services used, with no extra overhead.
Experience & Shared Best Practice
Designated On-Site DPO
A dedicated DPO works directly with your team, ensuring seamless integration.
Proven Model Documentation
Access to tested and validated documentation across various industries, saving you time and effort.
Pragmatic, Straightforward Advice
Receive practical, solution-driven guidance tailored to your needs.
UK & Pan-European Expertise
Benefit from extensive knowledge of both UK and European data protection regulations.

Let us be your dedicated independent Data Protection Offcier for your pharmacy or dental practice.