NHS Broadens Contractor Access To Patient Data

Fresh controversy has erupted around the NHS Federated Data Platform after reports claimed Palantir contractors and other external staff could be granted much broader access to identifiable patient data inside one of the NHS’s most sensitive systems.

What’s Happening To Our Health Data?

According to a recent report in the Financial Times, NHS England has approved the creation of a new administrative access role inside its National Data Integration Tenant, or NDIT, which sits at the heart of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP).