Apprenticeships launched to coach NHS employees on the FDP

An apprenticeship programme is being launched to equip NHS employees with the important expertise wanted to make use of the federated information platform (FDP) successfully.

The NHS FDP connects very important information which is at present saved in separate methods, enabling employees to entry the data they want in a single setting.

NHS England’s medium time period planning framework, revealed in October 2025, states that each one trusts and built-in care boards (ICBs) have to be onboarded to the NHS FDP and use its core merchandise to help elective restoration, most cancers, and pressing and emergency care from April 2026.

FDP provider Palantir and upskilling platform Multiverse are partnering to create a set of apprenticeship programmes that includes coaching on the FDP, with the primary cohorts deliberate to launch in February 2026.

Euan Blair, founder and chief govt of Multiverse, stated: “To actually unlock the facility of the NHS Federated Knowledge Platform, the NHS wants a workforce that’s assured and expert in utilizing information and AI.

“This partnership isn’t nearly implementing new expertise; it’s about investing within the individuals who will use it every single day to make a tangible distinction to affected person care.

“We’re proud to be part of this significant step within the NHS’s digital evolution, deepening our present relationship with the NHS.”

The curriculum will probably be tailor-made to the wants of a various vary of NHS roles, together with analysts, directors, managers and medical employees, with the goal of serving to NHS organisations implement the FDP instantly into their work.

Louis Mosley, govt vice chairman, UK and Europe, at Palantir, stated: “The NHS FDP is already bettering look after sufferers whereas chopping paperwork for docs and nurses.

“It has delivered 80,000 extra operations and lowered discharge delays by 15 per cent, whereas the federal government is forecasting that it’s on observe to ship £150 million of advantages every year by the tip of the last decade.

“Now we have to double down on coaching to maintain driving up the variety of NHS employees who’re skilled on the expertise – and this partnership will probably be central to that.”

The FDP affords merchandise corresponding to a referral to remedy validation software, outpatient care co-ordination and discharge planning.

Nevertheless, NHS trusts with their very own merchandise have persistently pushed again on adopting the FDP and regardless of 150 trusts having onboarded, solely 77 have been stay and actively reporting advantages in September 2025, in accordance with NHSE figures.

Marc Farr, chair of the Chief Knowledge and Analytics Officer’s Community, informed Digital Well being Information that NHSE’s mandate in its planning steering that trusts use the FDP is “at odds with the present coverage that claims you must take into account the FDP but when you have already got information and instruments in place then you may proceed and never use it”.

He beforehand wrote an open letter to Ming Tang, chief information and analytics officer at NHSE, elevating considerations about whether or not the FDP is able to supporting native methods.