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LONDON — The U.K. government began courting U.S. data and surveillance firm Palantir to work on ways to tap patient data from the National Health Service back in January 2019, according to documents seen by POLITICO that shed light on the relationship with the company. The documents show the government pitched access to NHS data earlier than has previously been reported — and a year before Palantir won a controversial contract to mine the NHS's COVID-19 patient data. In a meeting at the exclusive get-together of business leaders and policymakers in Davos, Switzerland, that year, former Tr...

Ilford GP Dr Najib Seedat has hit out at plans to upload NHS patient data onto a central database which would be available to academic and commercial third parties.

Misinformation about the controversial GP data sharing scheme is being perpetuated by a “small but vocal minority” and could potentially “derail” the system, experts have warned. The project will help to improve the care of patients with many conditions that are managed by GPs, Professor Cathie Sudlow said. Conditions such as long Covid, dementia, arthritis, heart failure and depression are mainly managed in GP surgeries and research into these ailments is “not as good as it could be” due to current limitations on data sharing, the director of the BHF Data Science Centre at Health...

Academics said care and research surrounding a range of conditions which are mostly managed by GPs will improve once the data sharing system starts.

Academics said care and research surrounding a range of conditions which are mostly managed by GPs will improve once the data sharing system starts.