What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.

An investigation by the NHS Information Centre has identified the drivers of poor data quality in the health service. The report examined the quality of data submitted by health and social care trusts ...

Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients – including mental health conditions and diseases such as cancer, as well as smoking and drinking habits – ...

Concerns are growing over NHS England granting Palantir and external contractors access to identifiable patient data within ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world’s largest publicly funded health service is buckling. A rapidly ageing population and growing numbers ...

111: the new non-emergency number for health in England, replacing NHS Direct's telephone advice line (although NHS Direct hopes to run it in many locations) and out of hours GP helplines, and already ...

More details have emerged about a controversial 2015 patient data-sharing arrangement between Google DeepMind and a UK National Health Service Trust which paint a contrasting picture vs the pair’s ...

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