NHS Digital has announced the launch of a new platform to collect data from general practitioners (GPs) to meet new requests stemming from healthcare and researchers posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

NHS Digital is launching a new de-identification system to anonymise patient data for the purpose of sharing it across various health and care settings. The organisation has signed a contract with ...

Experts are emphasising that safeguarding patient data from corporations and cyberattacks is vital for the NHS to create a ...

The new Palantir data project is referred to as the Faster Data Programme in the NHS Digital board documents. Despite a several-month delay in the £360 million procurement, a separate Federated ...

NHS Digital merged with NHS England on 1 February 2023. NHS Digital’s responsibilities for designing and operating national data infrastructure and digital systems will continue with NHS England. The ...

Although NHS Digital is doing sterling work in mapping each system to the others, there will always be loss of detail, so until a single system (SNOMED-CT) is in use, future data mining risks ...

But NHS Digital says the venture is needed to update the current 10-year-old system, which “has been used to help better understand and develop cures for serious illnesses, such as heart disease ...

A recently published report is calling on the NHS to reform how it collects and uses data provided by users of digital apps to help tackle health inequalities surrounding ethnicity. The Digital apps ...