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NHS England Receives Innovative Practices Award from Bio-IT World for Partnership with IQVIA on Privacy Enhancing Technology
Mar 21, 2025

Bio-IT World, a leading life sciences media outlet, has named National Health Service (NHS) England as the winner of the Respect the Patient Award as part of its 2025 Innovative Practices Awards. This recognition highlights the successful partnership between NHS England and IQVIA to deliver NHS-PET (Privacy Enhancing Technology) within the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP).

Over the next decade, NHS England is moving toward a data-enabled ecosystem with a connected, consistent data architecture. This will put patient data to work to optimize national insights and enable improved healthcare. A key challenge is ensuring compliance, including data auditability and protection, whilst optimizing data usability for crucial insights.

The FDP is a groundbreaking initiative designed to improve patient care, enhance operational efficiency, and drive innovation in healthcare for 55 million patients in England. NHS-PET is central to the platform’s success, ensuring the highest standards of data privacy, security, and transparency, while enabling secure data sharing at scale.

“Better use of data is essential for the NHS,” said Dr. Vin Diwakar, NHS National Director for Transformation. “This new tool provides a safe and secure environment to bring together data, which enables us to develop and deliver more responsive services for patients and will help the health service drive the recovery in elective care.”

In its first year of implementation, the FDP with integrated PET has already delivered measurable benefits, including reduced waiting times and expanded virtual services. For example, hospital trusts using this platform have treated an average of 114 more patients in theatres every month since its introduction. Expanding this shared digital infrastructure across NHS England could benefit care provision across more than 500 acute, specialist and community hospitals.

Other 2025 Innovative Practices Award winners include Genmab, Pistoia Alliance, and Regeneron. “In another year of tough competition, these four entries stood out as ones cleverly addressing real problems in the space,” said Allison Proffitt, editorial director at Bio-IT World. “These groups worked hard to understand the problems facing teams and solve them strategically; prioritized patients’ needs; and served as standards-bearers, quantifying how well we measure against our own most noble goals.”

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