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PodcastHSJ Download Podcast: What makes a good benefits evaluation?
As the debate around the federated data platform and its pros and cons rages on, the HSJ Download Podcast explores how tech benefits are evaluated in the NHS and what makes for a good evaluation.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: More dissent on FDP benefits
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Joe Talora and Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsWatchdog warns NHSE over FDP effectiveness claims
NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care have been told to involve their statistical teams more closely in any claims they make about the effectiveness of the federated data platform and to improve the accuracy of communications about the controversial IT system.
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CommentThe FDP’s murky accountability arrangements need clarifying
As the NHS prepares to make a billion-pound decision on its Federated Data Platform, questions about security accountability, failed assurances, and the absence of a tested exit plan demand answers before the February 2027 break clause arrives
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NewsTrusts ‘must use’ new FDP tools, says minister
Trusts will be instructed on federated data platform tools they “must” use, a minister has said – despite ongoing questions about whether the system and its main supplier will be dropped.
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NewsMackey: We need independent review of FDP
The chief executive of NHS England has backed a review of Palantir’s effectiveness amid increasing criticism of claims about the software provider’s benefits.
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NewsWatchdog launches investigation into NHSE claims of FDP effectiveness
The UK statistics watchdog has confirmed it is “reviewing” NHS England’s use of figures to promote the federated data platform, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMinister apologises for NHSE Palantir data blunder
A health minister has apologised for NHS England wrongly telling a watchdog that Palantir had no access to patient information in the federated data platform
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NewsTake more risks with new technology urges health secretary
The new health secretary has promised to “back” NHS leaders who take risks by increasing the use of new technology, in his first major speech in the role
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NewsData watchdog demands answers on Palantir patient data access
The national patient data watchdog has said it will investigate how Palantir staff came to have access to identifiable patient data in the federated data platform, despite previous assurances that this would not be the case.
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NewsTop trust ‘struggling’ with tariff reform
A top-performing trust’s CEO has said it is “struggling” with the impact of NHS England’s financial reforms – which it argues are “disproportionately” affecting organisations providing specialist care.
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CommentWe must shake up data sharing to deliver neighbourhood health
The success of neighbourhood health cannot depend on ambition alone. Governance, accountability, and digital coordination across fragmented NHS organisations are all required
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CommentWhat trust leaders need to understand about the FDP
What does the federated data platform actually deliver, where does it fall short and how can leaders turn it into an operational advantage? These are the questions that the NHS need to be asking
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NewsGPs to withhold patient data in contract dispute
GP practices should take “collective action” in protest against their contract by cutting back on sharing patient data, the British Medical Association’s GP committee has said.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Streeting’s abominables
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsReplacing Palantir would be ‘monumental task’, says former NHSE director
A former NHS England deputy director has said it would be a “monumental task” to switch the federated data platform to another provider amid calls to end the contract with Palantir.
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NewsStreeting: ‘Extraordinary vested interests’ resisted NHSE abolition
Government has faced an “extraordinary [level of] vested interest” from within the health sector opposing the abolition of NHS England, Wes Streeting has said.
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NewsEpic trusts reject use of FDP
Almost all trusts using the Epic electronic patient record system have resisted using the federated data platform, HSJ analysis has found.
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CommentWes Streeting must cancel Palantir’s FDP contract now
Palantir is not the right partner for the NHS, says Green Party leader Zack Polanski
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NewsLeading chair who advised Palantir to step down
The chair of the NHS’s biggest hospital group will step down this month, amid criticism in relation to his role of advising US tech firm Palantir.