Health service has given US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reports ...

Palantir, a US data analytics company backed in its early years by In-Q-Tel, now plays a central role in the NHS’s £330 million Federated Data Platform. Supporters say it could improve planning and ...

More than 150,000 people have had their personal information handled by England’s Test and Trace scheme since it was hurriedly launched on May 28 – 36 days ago. However, the government has failed to ...

An NHS trust with more than half a million patients each year has been found to be ‘in breach’ of a data protection law. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust - which manages Stepping Hill Hospital - was ...

NHS England is to delay by six months the roll-out of its controversial Care.data scheme for sharing patient records through a central database. An NHS England spokesman said the delay was to “allow ...

Home; Providing online consultation services; Providing online consultation services Purposes for processing. NHS England has supported the wider NHS by commissioning online consu ...

NHS England provides the Wayfinder services that enable people and carers to access information about their secondary care referrals and their elective care via the NHS account (either the NHS App or ...

In the wake of a disastrous data loss at the National Health Service, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has taken the unusual step of issuing a statement promising to work more closely with ...

An NHS trust has been reprimanded by the UK’s data protection regulator after it was discovered that staff had been sharing patient details on an unapproved app for two years. Some 26 staff at NHS ...

NHS England has expanded access to sensitive patient data for external contractors working on its controversial Palantir-backed data. The move has sparked concerns over privacy for such sensitive data ...

Police forces will be able to “strong-arm” NHS bodies into handing over confidential patient data under planned laws that have sparked fury from doctors’ groups and the UK’s medical watchdog.

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 ...