200,000-strong union says spy-tech firm's ICE work undermines patient trust British doctors are being urged to pull back from the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) after their union called on members ...

A major study led by the University of Hertfordshire has shown how linking care home data with NHS and social care records can improve residents' lives, strengthen policy decision-making and ensure ...

Ming Tang, interim chief digital and information officer (CDIO) at NHS England, has announced that she will leave her role in April.

Streeting announced the plan to allow NHS England to put the processes in place to share primary care data with scientific researchers in 2024, with the aim of making it easier for GPs to provide ...

NHSE has set out how technology and digital innovation will be key to driving the productivity gains set out in the 10 year health plan.

A recent Ernst & Young (EY) report presents a framework for the efficient and ethical use of NHS data, which it describes as "a treasure trove of information detailing health, wellness, illness and ...

Care.data is an NHS England project to store all GP patient data in a central database housed by the Health and Social Care Information Center (HSCIC). There it was to be amalgamated with the HES data ...

How are you? Bit of a cold? Perhaps something worse? Silicon Valley wants to know – big tech is coming for our health data. But while we're generally happy with academic or publicly funded research ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

To get a doctor’s appointment in the U.K. these days, you have to entrust more of your data to private companies — and there’s not a great deal you can do about it. In part due to growing pressure ...