NHS: Databases
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, is any data on Welsh patients treated in England (a) held and (b) processed by Palantir.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
The NHS Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP) safely connects information from different systems across the National Health Service into a single, secure environment. This allows staff to co-ordinate care better to improve outcomes for patients.
The NHS FDP is delivering for the NHS, helping people get the care they need quicker and more efficiently. Since March 2024, more than 100,000 additional patients have been supported to undergo procedures in theatres partly by increasing theatre utilisation. Nearly 94,000 people have been supported on their cancer journey, with 7% seeing a reduction in the time it took to diagnose their cancer. There has been a 14% decrease in delays discharging patients staying in hospital for more than seven days, freeing up beds for those who need it most. NHS England publishes quarterly information on benefits realised from the FDP, which is available at the following link:
To date 24 integrated care board clusters and 168 NHS trusts in England have signed up to the NHS FDP.
Where a patient resident in Wales receives treatment at an NHS organisation in England that is using products within the NHS FDP, information relating to that episode of care may be processed within the platform, in line with applicable legal and information governance requirements.
Data in the NHS FDP remains under NHS control at all times. The suppliers of the NHS FDP, including Palantir UK, act as data processors and only operate under limited project-based access under the instruction of NHS England and participating NHS organisations. The supplier does not control the data in the platform, nor are they permitted to access, use, or share it for their own purposes.
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