Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info
A family doctors' conference has called on the UK's medics union to help scrutinize bidders for the NHS Federated Data Platform contract to ensure they have a positive track record on security, privacy and ethics.
Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer, CEO of Cambridgeshire LMC, said recent news reports and comment from the National Data Guardian suggested"Palantir have no business being involved" in the £360 million FDP project, for which NHS England is set to start procurement in the coming weeks. "There are such important lessons to be learned from history to avoid making those mistakes. NHS England has got to keep [those lessons] in mind and engage with our critical themes, because this is so important to our patients and our profession."
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