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What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.
The latest NHS data sharing scheme looked set to repeat past mistakes – but the latest postponement provides hope.
Automated decision making has been around in healthcare since the 1970s, and now radiology is the new frontline where AI is being deployed.
Case management systems used by GPs are supposed to help those at risk.
Non-use of data may be an even bigger problem that its misuse.
Youth forums are valuable in giving young people a say about health provision in their communities.
There are many obstacles to bringing the power of 21st-century technology to the NHS. But that shouldn’t stop us trying.
There are advantages, too.
Repeated data panics have left the public in a state of anger and confusion. How does NHS England fix the problem?
Declared ‘unachievable’ by a treasury watchdog, the zombie care.data scheme is back and still full of holes.
Recent reports have indicated that the Home Office has enjoyed access to the NHS records of more than 6,900 people since 2010, and used information from them for ramped-up efforts to track down illegal…
As the UK government wrangles with the sticky problem of how to make health records useful for research without compromising privacy, it might look to how Google has evolved for inspiration. Google was…
It’s crunch time for the UK government’s controversial care.data scheme, which has been postponed for the second time. A new advisory panel is starting work this week to try to work out how to get this…
In the run up to the introduction of the NHS care.data programme, there is an urgent need for a debate about what we, and our healthcare providers, mean by the term “consent”. So far, the plans for care.data…













