Maternity Services: Medical Records
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the North West maternity trial of the Single Patient Record, referred to in the Health Bill Committee on 16 June 2026, is being delivered through the Federated Data Platform; and what role (a) Palantir technologies and (b) the NHS AI Platform play in that programme.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
The Single Patient Record (SPR) and the NHS Federated Data Platform are separate programmes. The North West maternity work is at an early stage, and no final decisions have been made on the technical approach or delivery partners. NHS England will continue to consider how SPR aligns with existing National Health Service digital and data infrastructure, subject to appropriate safeguards, governance, and data protection requirements.
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