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Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 65990

NHS: Databases

Tabled: 8 July 2025
Answered: 15 July 2025

Question

Martin Wrigley

Liberal Democrat — Newton Abbot

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

Karin Smyth

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 Interfaces. The NHS Federated Data Platform has extensive integration capabilities. The platform has active integrations using alternative visualisation tools, for instance PowerBI. The NHS Federated Data Platform Data Schemas are published to GitHub.

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