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DCB 0160 & clinical safety assurance
built for the NHS.

Squirrel™ 2.0 helps NHS teams centralise and manage DCB 0160 compliance more efficiently. Centralise supplier evidence, streamline clinical safety reviews and manage all assurance in one secure platform.

• Trusted by the World's Leading Healthtech Innovators •

Accelerate digital transformation without compromising clinical safety.

AI-powered DTAC guide

Magic away the most boring parts of building a healthtech.

The DTAC Squirrel™  has been built it with 100+ years of combined health-tech expertise. It’s the world’s first AI coach and compliance assistant with embedded DTAC knowledge, built for up & coming innovators like you.

On-demand compliance guidance

Get compliant at the speed of light with our round-the-clock expert help.

Squirrel™ is backed by the world’s most knowledgeable DTAC compliance team. You can access them through Squirrel™ for real-time guidance on all of your compliance and regulatory questions. Save time working out the DTAC mystery and work on what you know best—innovation.

Task management system

Real time compliance notifications and a sleek dashboard to keep you on track.

See simple compliance reports and get notifications that tell you what you need to do, and when you need to do it. Stay organised and hit deadlines with confidence.

DTAC coaching

Invest in continuous compliance, not one-off solutions.

Compliance is not a once and done exercise. You need to level up with every single product release to remain DTAC compliant. That’s why the Squirrel™ is built to help you understand and bake compliance processes into your company culture.

DCB 0160 compliance that keeps up with
digital health transformation.

Support that goes (not 20%, not 50%, not even 80%) 100% of the way.

Built For Health

Squirrel™ 2.0 supports NHS organisations  and suppliers in meeting standards such as DCB 0160, DCB 0129, DTAC and DSPT within a single, automated platform.
From first deployment to multi-system governance, every control and record stays in one place.

End Compliance Silos

Managing multiple frameworks shouldn’t mean duplicate work. Squirrel™ 2.0 links tasks, evidence, and controls across GDPR, DCB 0169, DSPT, and more, so your evidence counts everywhere it should.

Powerful Automation

Squirrel™ 2.0 auto-generates safety-case templates, links evidence to requirements and alerts teams when reviews or approvals are due. Less time in spreadsheets, more time ensuring safer deployments.

Keep assurance live between reviews.

Squirrel™ 2.0 gives governance and clinical-safety teams a clear, auditable view of every system in scope. Track approvals and ensure safety documentation stays current as systems evolve.

Expert Guidance, On Demand

On-demand support from NHS-experienced specialists.
If your teams need extra capacity, you can access Acorn’s Clinical Safety Officers and governance experts directly through Squirrel™ 2.0.

Compliance made easy, clients left beaming.

Discover how companies like yours have automated compliance, unlocked new markets, and ditched the compliance chaos.

“Squirrel™ guided us in the right direction and was very useful. It clarified and simplified the whole process, breaking compliance down into into easy, manageable tasks."

Duncan Ryan
CTO, Cherub Health

"It was great to work with Acorn Compliance. They were able to deliver our scope of work to time and fitted into the team seamlessly. I could not recommend them any more and we will be certainly using them for more projects."

Krishan Ramdoo
CEO - Tympa Health

"With a professional, reliable and extremely efficient approach, Acorn Compliance have assisted us in navigating the complex and heavily regulated healthcare market, to ensure DocComs attained all the required regulatory compliance and was accessible to purchase for the NHS."

Roseanna Jaggard
CEO, DocComs

The right plan for every stage of your compliance journey.

Start with what you need today and scale to what tomorrow demands.
Join hundreds of digital health innovators simplifying compliance with Squirrel™ 2.0

Starter Plan

From

£249

+ VAT
per month
Get Starter
Qualifying criteria:
Up to 3 employees
No funding received (Except accelerator funding)
Pre-revenue
Agree to act as a case study
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
AI coach with regulatory intelligence to guide your compliance journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription

Standard Plan

From

£370

+ VAT
per month
Get Standard
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
Cyber Essentials external assessment fee included
Simplified DCB 0129 clinical safety hazard log generation
AI coach with regulatory intelligence to guide your compliance journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Validation of your DTAC evidence by our expert team
Expert-guided support to introduce a culture of compliance into your organisation
The industry’s only DTAC warranty with our recognised seal of compliance
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription
Recommended

Pro Plan

From

£970

+ VAT
per month
Get Pro
Everything in Squirrel™ Standard, plus:
A named Clinical Safety Officer will be assigned to you for the duration of your 
Squirrel™ contract
Your CSO will deliver a full hazard assessment workshop, risk score all identified hazards in line with the DCB 0129 standard and deliver all required artefacts to satisfy the clinical safety element of DTAC
An assessment and output report on the medical device status of your innovation
The CSO will be available for a set time per month to assist with revisions to your Clinical Safety documentation as your product evolves
Minimum 12 month subscription
Add – ons
Penetration testing
Accessibility audit
Medical Device Regulations
ISO 27001
Bespoke regulatory advice
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Starter Plan

From

£2,499

+ VAT
/pcm*
+ VAT
Get Starter
Qualifying criteria:
Up to 3 employees
No funding received (Except accelerator funding)
Pre-revenue
Will provide honest feedback on our product and act as a reference client (Agree to act as a case study)
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
AI DTAC coach to guide your DTAC journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription
Save 10% WHEN PAID ANNUALLY

Standard Plan

From

£3,996

+ VAT
/pcm*
Get Standard
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
Cyber Essentials external assessment fee included
Simplified DCB 0129 clinical safety hazard log generation
AI DTAC coach to guide your DTAC journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Validation of your DTAC evidence by our expert team
Expert-guided support to introduce a culture of compliance into your organisation
The industry’s only DTAC warranty with our recognised seal of compliance
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription
Save 10% WHEN PAID ANNUALLY

Pro Plan

From

£10,476

+ VAT
/pcm*
Get Pro
Everything in Squirrel™ Standard, plus:
A named Clinical Safety Officer will be assigned to you for the duration of your 
Squirrel™ contract
Your CSO will deliver a full hazard assessment workshop, risk score all identified hazards in line with the DCB 0129 standard and deliver all required artefacts to satisfy the clinical safety element of DTAC
An assessment and output report on the medical device status of your innovation
The CSO will be available for a set time per month to assist with revisions to your Clinical Safety documentation as your product evolves
Minimum 12 month subscription
Save 10% WHEN PAID ANNUALLY

*pcm = Per Calendar Month

With every package you have the option to purchase add on services as needed:

Penetration testing
Accessibility audit
Medical Device Regulations
ISO 27001
Consultancy done differently
1-to-1 Strategy Session
Fractional CCO
AI Compliance

Why NHS Trusts Choose Squirrel™ 2.0

Squirrel™ 2.0 centralises every NHS framework, so teams can focus on clinical safety and assurance, not chasing paperwork.

Save time on every review.

Squirrel™ 2.0 replaces spreadsheets with automated workflows, helping CSOs complete safety cases in days, not weeks.

Strengthen supply-chain assurance.

Squirrel™ 2.0 centralises DTAC packs, certifications, and risk assessments in one dashboard, giving procurement and IG teams full visibility across the supply chain.

Maintain continuous assurance.

Keep your frameworks, policies, and evidence connected. Get real-time visibility and confidence between audits and CQC inspections.

You could get compliance assistance from a number of places.

Spreadsheets and shared drives

May be the easiest way to get the job done for now...

But

Version control, audit trails, and ownership are hard and time consuming to maintain.

Other compliance platforms

Can help create and maintain your safety case or hazard logs....

But

They’re expensive, rely on static templates, and don’t support the continuous monitoring required under DCB 0160.

Reasons Squirrel™ 2.0 is the best of both worlds:

As smart as a consulting company. As affordable as a compliance platform. Better than both.

Backed by the most knowledgeable experts across every compliance area.
Embeds a culture of compliance, so you don’t keep running into regulatory roadblocks.
Built for healthtech & the NHS (DTAC, DCB 0129 HIPAA, MDR and ISO standards).

And we warranty all of your evidence, meaning...

If your Squirrel™ generated evidence file isn’t accepted by any reviewing body, we will remedy all of it free of charge!
We can even work with the procuring authority to help them fully understand your evidence file and get your assessment done in time!
ALL of this work will be free of charge and completed within 5 working days.

Have questions?

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