UK's National Health Service will roll existing Palantir work into patient data platform
Earlier this month, NHS Digital board papers revealed the
and share this with the data platform based on technology from Palantir, in a move designed to help cut hospital waiting times. This has prompted warnings of further legal action by privacy campaigners., NHS England has now confirmed that this data extraction will need to be rolled into the £360 million Federated Data Platform .
A potential bidder asked NHS England to confirm whether Palantir was being told to collect patient-level data from hospitals on a daily basis and whether this would have any bearing on the scope or timing of the procurement of the FDP."We are aware that, since the supplier briefings earlier this year, a number of organizations have invested in bid preparations, and an update on the current position would be welcome in this regard," they said.
NHS England replied:"The data collection referred to is part of service provision under NHS England's existing contract with Palantir for the provision of a data platform, which is a software platform for the secure, reliable, and timely processing of data to enable NHS decision makers to best plan use of resources and improve patient care.
Those services are within the scope of the requirement for the Federated Data Platform and would be transitioned to the FDP as part of its implementation in place of the existing platform
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