What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.

England’s National Health Service (NHS) has long had grand ambitions for data use and sharing, but in the past has failed to win over the public with its plans. It hopes secure data environments will ...

MPs have urged the UK government to scrap a “dreadful” and “shameful” £330m NHS contract with the controversial US tech giant Palantir during a Westminster debate.1 Palantir, which also provides ...

The NHS is planning to ramp up the use of AI tools through the FDP, including products to support theatre scheduling, triage ...

NHS data could be of ‘immense value’ to Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, the House of Lords Select Committee on AI has said. In a report published today, the committee reinforces that AI can ...

Dr Tim Ferris, Director of Transformation at NHS England, has told MPs on the Science and Technology Committee that the NHS App could one day be used by citizens to allow them to have insight into how ...

It's been a difficult few weeks for the NHS's digital ambitions. On 3 June a ransomware cyber attack on pathology test provider Synnovis led to thousands of cancelled appointments and procedures and a ...

The boss of the controversial tech company with UK government contracts published a 22-point plan on the future of the West.

To get a doctor’s appointment in the U.K. these days, you have to entrust more of your data to private companies — and there’s not a great deal you can do about it. In part due to growing pressure ...

The Government released the latest incarnation of its strategy to enable wider sharing of NHS data that it claims will "drive innovation and deliver cutting-edge patient care". The policy paper, Data ...

Patients will benefit from more streamlined care and be able to make more informed choices about how and where they access treatment after plans to transform NHS data sharing were brought forward. The ...