> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.assuric.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Complete and generate a DTAC form
> Find DTAC under Frameworks, start a form for your product, answer the 8 sections and generate the completed form for external stakeholders.
**Quick summary**
* DTAC is a form you complete and generate for external stakeholders, one for each product.
* Find it under **Compliance → Frameworks**. A form needs a *Key contact* and a *Product* before you can start it.
* You can generate before every section is complete. You'll be warned, but not stopped.
NHS England updated DTAC on 24 February 2026, and v2 came into force on 6 April 2026. Assuric works to v2. Guidance written for the original single-form flow no longer applies.
As with any framework update, your existing progress and gaps carry across automatically.
## Before you start
The form draws its answers from your workspace, so the more is already in Assuric, the less you type. Company details come from Company Information and product details from the product record.
## Open the DTAC framework
Click **Compliance → Frameworks** in the sidebar, then open the **DTAC** card.
DTAC's framework page has a *DTAC Forms* panel where submissions live and, lower down, each DTAC section with its official description.
## Create a form
In the *DTAC Forms* panel, click **New DTAC form**.
The form is created the moment you click, before you've filled anything in, and a *New DTAC form added* confirmation appears. To back out, use **Back** and then delete the form: closing the dialog leaves an empty form behind.
The *Start DTAC Form?* dialog asks for 2 things, and both are required:
* *Key contact*: who the key contact for this submission is
* *Product*: which product the form covers
If either is blank, **Start** won't proceed and the missing field is marked *Required*.
The form opens, and its status changes to *In Progress*.
Each form covers one product, so 3 products mean 3 forms, side by side in the *DTAC Forms* panel with their own product and key contact. An assessor reviewing one product gets a form scoped to it.
## Work through the sections
The form has 8 sections, listed down the left with a status against each, following the official DTAC lettering:
| Section | Code | What it establishes |
| - | - | - |
| *Company Information* | A | Your organisation and contact details |
| *Value Proposition* | B | The clinical, economic or behavioural benefits of your product (*Non-assessed*) |
| *Clinical Safety* | C1 | That your product is clinically safe to use |
| *Data Protection* | C2 | That your product collects, stores and uses data compliantly |
| *Technical Security* | C3 | That your product meets industry best-practice security standards and is stable |
| *Interoperability Criteria* | C4 | How well your product exchanges data with other systems |
| *Usability & Accessibility* | D1 | That your product has followed best practice |
| *Generate DTAC Form* | No code | Confirming the assessment is complete and producing the form |
Many questions arrive answered. In Section A, your company name and product name come from your workspace, so check they're current there.
Some questions are conditional: answering *Yes* to *"Is your company required to register with the CQC?"* asks for the date of your last CQC assessment and your latest CQC report.
Where NHS England publishes guidance for a question, it appears inline under an *Official Guidance* heading. It's the assessor's own wording, worth following exactly.
Click **Next** to continue, or **Save & Back** to leave and return later. Section status updates as you go.
Each question has **copy** and **comment** icons. Use comments to ask a colleague about an answer instead of chasing it in Slack: the note stays attached to the question.
## Generate the form
The page lists every section with its code and current status. If anything is outstanding, you'll see *Warning: Incomplete sections*, reading *"There are still some outstanding sections to complete for your DTAC form"*.
Under *Ready to generate completed DTAC form*, tick *Ready for export* to confirm the assessment is complete and ready to share with external stakeholders. This marks the *Generate DTAC Form* section as *Completed*, which is why the counter reads out of 8, not 7.
A *Ready to generate?* dialog confirms what happens next:
> This will generate the completed NHS DTAC document in your control evidence library, complete with links to supporting documentation. This will then be ready to share and we recommend adding it to your Trust Page.
Click **Generate**, or **Cancel** to go back.
Add the generated document to your **Trust Centre** so customers can get it themselves.
**The incomplete-sections warning is advisory, not a block.** You can tick *Ready for export* and generate with every other section still *Not Started*. Treat the section checklist as the gate, not the button: an assessor receiving a form generated from an empty assessment sees exactly that.
The card in the *DTAC Forms* panel changes with the form's state:
| State | What the card shows |
| - | - |
| *Not Started* | A **Start** button, with the section overview greyed out |
| *In Progress* | A **View** button, plus the product and the key contact's avatar |
To remove a form, open **⋯ → Assessment Options → Delete**. You'll be asked to confirm, and the deletion cannot be undone.
**What we recommend**
Create a form early and open Section A, even if you can't finish it: the auto-filled answers are the fastest way to find what's missing or stale in your workspace, and an assessor would find the same gaps.
## Related articles
Product details feed several DTAC sections.
Where a completed DTAC form can be published for customers.
How the Requirements/Tasks split works across every framework.
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