All eyes were on the government as the King Charles III opened Parliament and the Treasury refused to fund the £1 billion cost of this year’s NHS strike action, forcing the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England to find a funding injection for the frontline from waiting list and capital budgets.
Despite the raid, the plan to create a Federated Data Platform for the NHS appears to be on, and Palantir is expected to be the winner. Meanwhile, the first trust went live with an electronic patient record as part of Northern Ireland’s Encompass programme, and two trusts in the Black Country picked System C.
