Written questions

NHS: Databases

Commons · Question 65990 · Tabled 8 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 15 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has stress-tested the portability of (a) data schemas, (b) application programming interfaces and (c) dashboards for use on other vendor platforms.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 15 Jul 2025

NHS Federated Data Platform products are built using open-source technologies, for instance Python and Spark. End-user products can also be built using open market frameworks, for instance React, interfacing to the platform Application Programming Interfa...