Alison Moore

A doctor whose teenage son died from a sudden cardiac arrest during a football game has called for the system of cascading genetic information within families to be overhauled.Adam Ankers was just 17 when he died in early 2024 while playing in a match for Wycombe Wanderers Foundation under-19 team.Adam Ankers, 17, died from a sudden cardiac arrest while playing footballAnkers familyAt the time it was not realised he was having a cardiac arrest, and despite people at the event calling 999 no one was advised to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or use a defibrillator before paramedics arrived.Adam was subsequently found to have an inherited heart condition, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), which had been identified in a cousin of his grandmother in 2018. However, information about this had not been passed on to his grandmother until 2022, and she was unaware of the full ramifications of potentially carrying a gene variant (PKP2) that causes ARVC.Although she …

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The US tech giant Palantir should not have such a significant role in the NHS and wider UK public sector and represents a “clear mismatch with UK values,” an influential committee of MPs has concluded.In a damning report published on 3 June the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee said the increasing presence of the controversial firm in UK public services amounted to an “unacceptable point of weakness” for the government.1The report highlights particular issues with Palantir's Federated Data Platform (FDP) contract, awarded by NHS England in November 2023 and valued at up to £330m over seven years. It urges ministers to exercise the February 2027 “break clause” in the contract for the platform, which connects disparate sources of patient data across the NHS.The same day England's national data guardian, Nicola Byrne, issued a statement calling for “clarity” over concerns that Palantir has been allowed “unlimited access” to patient data as part of its FDP work, as first reported by the Financial Times .2In their report the MPs argued that Palantir is “far from the only company capable of providing the data analysis 'middleware' required by public bodies.” The government should either develop an in-house replacement …