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The NHS Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP) safely connects information across the NHS, making it easier for staff and clinicians to do their jobs. Already funded and established it’s designed to turn insight to action.
- Quicker access to critical insights
- More coordinated care
- Enhanced productivity
- Improved patient outcomes
Our solutions integrate with other systems and evolve to meet future needs.
What is it?
The NHS FDP is a shared system that helps bring together data from across the health service. It includes three main parts:
- Core infrastructure: connects existing systems and data, helping to break down barriers so that information can be seen in one place.
- Product solutions: specific tools built on the platform to tackle key challenges, such as managing waiting lists or planning patient discharges.
- Analytical capabilities: the platform includes tools that help analyse the data, making it easier to spot trends and find ways to improve care.
How does it work?
Each NHS organisation, for example a trust or integrated care board (ICB), will have their own ‘instance’ of the NHS FDP for which they are the data controller and NHS England is responsible for the national instance.
Organisations with an NHS FDP instance will have the ability to connect and share information between them and in relation to any personal information, where data protection law allows it. For example, to discharge a patient from hospital into a care setting.
The national NHS England instance serves as a replacement for multiple legacy systems, and delivering accurate, near-real-time data to inform strategic and operational planning.
If data is shared nationally for planning, then separate privacy enhancing technology is used to remove personable identifiable information such as a patient’s name and NHS number.
More detail on the individual instances and the full architecture that makes us the NHS Federated Data Platform is available here: NHS England » NHS FDP infrastructure.
NHS FDP explainer animation video
Want to learn more about the NHS FDP, how it works and the NHS trusts already benefitting from using the platform – watch more videos via the NHS FDP playlist.
NHS FDP easy read
View easy read information about the NHS Federated Data Platform.