Editorial: Ministers should end Palantir’s contract before medical confidentiality is sacrificed to Silicon Valley’s appetite for public data ...

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 ...

Analysts say it is challenging to track whether Palantir is sticking to the terms of its NHS contract.

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NHS hospitals are being urged by a group of doctors, human rights groups and campaigners to reconsider using a major data platform built by US tech giant Palantir, whose owners include Peter Thiel, a ...

Care.data is an NHS England project to store all GP patient data in a central database housed by the Health and Social Care Information Center (HSCIC). There it was to be amalgamated with the HES data ...

Doctors and health experts have expressed alarm over plans to hand sweeping new powers to the health secretary to control patients' data. The government's new NHS Modernisation Bill includes plans for ...

The human genome is made up of 3 billion letters of DNA (A, T, C and G). Whole genome sequencing is a technique that is used to ‘read’ these letters and finds their order one by one. The digital ...

NHS England has been given responsibility by the Secretary of State, for the delivery of a number of Vaccination Programmes provided by the NHS for England. Information about the types of vaccinations ...