The UK government is set to extract patient-identifiable data from NHS hospital systems and share this with its data platform based on technology from Palantir, a move that seems set to provoke another legal challenge.Without consulting patients or giving them the choice of opting out, NHS England and NHS Improvement - the non-departmental government body which runs the NHS in England - has instructed NHS Digital to gather the data for the purpose of understanding and reducing the crisis in treatment waiting times resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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