Health and Social Care Committee

16 June 2026

Health and Social Care Committee House of Commons

00:05 - 00:23
Speaker 5
Order, order.  Welcome to this one-off session of the Health and Social Care Select Committee where we will be looking at the Federated Data Platform.  Please may I ask our witnesses on our first panel to start by introducing themselves and what they do.  Can I start with Dr Sarah Scobie, please? 
00:23 - 00:47
Speaker 4
Thank you very much.  So, I'm currently Deputy Director of Research at the Nuffield Trust, which is a health policy think tank, and we aim to improve health and care through bringing evidence to debate.  By training, I'm a quantitative researcher and worked previously for many years in the NHS as an analyst and with informatics teams. 
00:47 - 00:48
Thank you.  Nigel? 
00:48 - 01:15
Speaker 3
Yes, I'm Nigel Shadbolt.  I'm a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford.  I chair the AI at Oxford research initiative, but in this context as well, I'm executive chair and co-founder of the Open Data Institute, which I founded in 2012 with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, which is basically aims, its mission is to build a trusted and open data ecosystem. 

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