NHS England admits its paperwork hid that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data
NHS England has admitted that a key data-protection document misstated who could see patients’ medical records. It did not disclose the whole arrangement. Staff at Palantir, the US data-analytics firm, can view identifiable patient data inside part of the new Federated Data Platform.
The admission followed a request from the National Data Guardian, the statutory office that advises the NHS on confidentiality. NHS England conceded the error and apologised, The Register reported.
“We recognise that the DPIA contained an error in how it described supplier access to data, so we are correcting that error, and we apologise for any confusion this has caused,” NHS England said in its response. DPIA stands for Data Protection Impact Assessment, the document meant to spell out exactly this.
What Palantir can actually see
The access sits inside the platform’s National Data Integration Tenant. NHS England confirmed back in May that some supplier...
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