Written questions

NHS: Databases

Commons · Question 65988 · Tabled 8 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 14 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to verify that derivative analytical outputs from the NHS Federated Digital Platform cannot be reverse-engineered to reveal identifiable patient data.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 14 Jul 2025

All analytics products created by NHS England, including those developed on the NHS Federated Data Platform, are subject to a full Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA) as part of the design and development process, with further information available at t...