Question follow-through · 63836
Health Services: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to make (a) the NHS Accessible Information Standard and (b) deaf awareness training mandatory for NHS staff.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Department of Health and Social Care: Palantir · 1 Jul 2025
- Incontinence: Devon · 3 Jul 2025
- NHS: Palantir · 8 Jul 2025
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- NHS: Artificial Intelligence · 8 Jul 2025
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to make (a) the NHS Accessible Information Standard and (b) deaf awareness training mandatory for NHS staff.
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
The revised Accessible Information Standard (AIS) was published on 1 July, and is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/accessible-information-standard/NHS England is working to support implementation of the AIS with awareness raising...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Department of Health and Social Care: Palantir
1 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what contracts their Department has with Palantir.
Incontinence: Devon
3 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support people with bladder and bowel control conditions in Devon.
NHS: Palantir
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Palantir's involvement on the NHS model of being free at the point of use.
NHS: Databases
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of Federated Data Platform development work is carried out by UK-based engineers; and whether data processing beyond AWS input processes is off-shored.
NHS: Artificial Intelligence
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to periodically review NHS AI models to ensure continued alignment with (a) data protection and (b) clinical safety standards.
NHS: Palantir
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients will be consulted on changes to purpose-based access policies during the contract with Palantir.
NHS: Databases
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS-funded analytics solutions created on the Federated Data Platform have been (a) patented and (b) registered by (i) Palantir Technologies and (ii) its subsidiaries.
NHS: Databases
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to verify that derivative analytical outputs from the NHS Federated Digital Platform cannot be reverse-engineered to reveal identifiable patient data.
NHS: Databases
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients who are data controllers under the national data opt-out can (a) review and (b) challenge how their records are processed within the Federated Data Platform.
NHS: Databases
8 Jul 2025 · 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.
NHS: Databases
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what milestones are included in the Federated Data Platform contract to (a) facilitate orderly off-boarding and (b) data migration to an alternative provider.
NHS: Databases
9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on its data cleaning specification for Palantir; and whether that specification defines how patient data are (a) extracted, (b) transformed and (c) load