NHS England: Databases

(asked on 12th January 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government which use cases or purposes are currently active in the national instances of the NHS England Federated Data Platform; and what is the number of users currently able to access each purpose, as defined by Palantir on 4 December 2020, Purpose-based Access Controls at Palantir.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 22nd January 2026

The NHS Federated Data Platform, including the national instance, provides trusts and integrated care boards with a set of core capabilities and nationally commissioned locally developed products to support five key National Health Service priorities:

- Population Health and Person Insight;

- Care Coordination;

- Supply Chain;

- Vaccination and Immunisation; and

- Elective Recovery.

There are currently 28,732 active accounts on the Federated Data Platform's National tenant, and access to data is managed by dataset and product-specific access controls. This figure does not include the number of accounts across local tenants.

The information on the number of users currently able to access each purpose is not routinely collected, as user stats are aligned to products.

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