The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) connects a defined set of operational products — care coordination, elective recovery, patient flow, supply chain, population health, vaccination — on a proprietary national platform. commvita’s Flow Edition delivers the same product set on open standards, adds what the FDP largely doesn’t (closed-loop action, cross-setting reach into community and social care, and federation by design), and ships in the Flow Edition at £1 per instance (with optional paid support) — no Palantir contract. As NHS England repositions ICBs as strategic commissioners, the FDP product set increasingly underpins population-need-based planning and allocative value — and the Flow Edition carries that strategic-commissioning analytics layer, plus a governed-AI answer to the FDP’s emerging AI, on open standards.
Same jobs, done more openly and taken further. The FDP shows you the problem on a dashboard; commvita shows it and acts on it, across acute, community and social care, without moving your data off its source.
commvita covers the full FDP product set: care coordination, elective recovery, hospital operational flow, supply chain, population health management and vaccination — each as a working module, most already API-backed.
Beyond read-only dashboards: commvita Flow’s Closed-Loop Actions auto-create discharge tasks, notify via NRL / GP Connect, book transport and order TTAs — and it reaches community and social care, not just the acute trust the FDP centres on.
openEHR / FHIR / OMOP — not a proprietary ontology. True federation by design: cohort discovery and network studies return aggregate-only (k ≥ 5), 0 rows transferred. Runs on any cloud or on-prem, jurisdiction-portable, in the Flow Edition — £1 per instance (optional support).
| Action raised | Setting | Route | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| D2A referral + transport | Community | /patient-transport | created |
| GP notified (record updated) | Primary care | NRL / GP Connect | sent |
| TTA dispensing ordered | Pharmacy | /pharmacy-ttas | queued |
| Social care package check | Social care | /care-package-finance | awaiting |
Care coordination, elective recovery, patient flow, supply chain, population health and vaccination all exist as commvita modules — several already API-backed (Flow, OnCall/OPEL, Population Health, Immunisation), the operational dashboards seeded for demo.
commvita doesn’t stop at a dashboard — it acts on flow (discharge tasks, notifications, transport, TTAs) and spans acute + community + social care + mental health, the settings where delayed discharges are actually resolved.
No proprietary ontology and no national licence: open openEHR / FHIR / OMOP, a genuine OHDSI network node, federated cohort discovery that moves 0 rows, and a built-in Secure-Data-Environment-equivalent for research — all in the Flow Edition at £1 per instance, with optional paid support.
| FDP capability | Flow Edition | Route | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care coordination (integrated care, discharge) | commvita Flow closed-loop actions · Discharge Hub · Virtual Ward | /flow · /discharge-hub | ● Live (Flow) · ☉ Demo |
| Elective recovery (waiting list / RTT) | RTT PTL · Referral Hub · PIFU · Waiting Well (equity lens) | /rtt-ptl · API /ers/ · /pifu/ | ● Live (/ers, /pifu) · ☉ PTL |
| Hospital operational flow (beds, OPEL) | Health Flow Canvas · OnCall Manager · Bed Board · Winter Pressures | API /flow/ · /oncall/ | ● Live |
| Supply chain | NHS Supply Chain · Supply Intelligence (autonomous reorder) | /nhs-supply-chain | ☉ Demonstrated |
| Population health management | Population Health (cohorts, phenotypes) · Deprivation Mapping · Risk Pyramid | API /population-health | ● Live |
| Strategic commissioning (ICB planning, allocative value) | ICB Commissioning & Procurement · TCOC · ICS Population Analytics · ICS Contract Intelligence · LeftShift | API /icb-commissioning · /tcoc-dashboard | ● Live (ICB Comm.) · ☉ Demo |
| Vaccination & immunisation | Immunisation Management (register, campaigns, NIMS, cold-chain) | API /immunisation/ | ● Live |
| Diagnostics & theatres (recovery) | Diagnostics Capacity (DM01) · Theatre Productivity (GIRFT) | /diagnostics-capacity · /theatre-productivity | ☉ Demonstrated |
| Secure Data Environment (secondary use) | Clinical Studies (3-tier anonymisation, extract ledger) · Federated Cohort Discovery | /clinical-studies · /cohort-discovery | ● Live (Studies) · ☉ Demo |
| Canonical Data Model (DAPB4121 — the FDP data layer) | FDP CDM — Trust Data Console: canonical schema, DQ tests, FHIR read API (UK Core), governance/RLS | /fdp-cdm | — |
| Data integration & pipeline monitoring (Foundry) | PulseGrid — Integration Assurance: dual-endpoint monitoring over 12 EPR connectors, protocol-native probes (MLLP/FHIR/REST) | /connector-dashboard | — |
| UEC demand & capacity forecasting | A&E Demand Forecasting (7-day, hourly profiles, surge & OPEL bed-demand) · Winter Pressures Forecast (6-week, flu/RSV, mutual aid) | /ae-demand-forecast · /winter-pressures | — |
| Virtual wards / acute-at-home | Virtual Ward Hub: live bed board, NEWS2 observations, step-up alerts, MDT review, cost-vs-physical-bed outcomes | /virtual-ward | — |
| Federated analytics (data stays at source) | Federated Query · OHDSI / OMOP network node | API /federated-query · /omop | ● Live |
The FDP is adding AI use cases. commvita’s answer is governed, human-in-the-loop AI wired to action — not central insight alone. Worked example: the electronic Discharge Notification (eDN), drafted, coded, reconciled and sent without leaving the platform, every step on the AI-governance audit.
Ambient voice or an LLM drafts the discharge summary from the encounter; the clinician reviews and accepts — the human stays in the loop, the AI never files unattended.
The draft is SNOMED-coded from the free text and the discharge medicines are reconciled (TTAs) — structured output, not just prose.
MESH-sent to the GP and the record updated — and the whole chain is registered on ATRS with a DCB0129 clinical-safety case and a GDPR Art.22 human-review log. Insight becomes a coded, reconciled, delivered artefact.
| Dimension | NHS FDP (as designed) | Flow Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Action | Dashboards & insight; action happens in other systems | ● Closed-loop — creates tasks, notifies, books, orders |
| Reach | Acute-trust-centred | ● Acute + community + social care + mental health |
| Strategic commissioning | National operational products & insight | ● Needs-based segmentation, allocative value & place-based planning — wired to action |
| Emerging AI | Central AI use cases (insight) | ● Governed, human-in-the-loop AI wired to closed-loop action (e.g. AI-drafted eDN → coded → reconciled → sent) on ATRS / DCB0129 / Art.22 |
| Standards | Proprietary platform (Palantir Foundry) | ● Open: openEHR · FHIR R4 · OMOP / OHDSI |
| Federation | Central platform with per-trust instances | ● Aggregate-only (k≥5), 0 rows moved — federation by design |
| Portability | NHS-England-specific national contract | ● Any cloud / on-prem · jurisdiction-portable |
| Diagnosis | Reports the metric; naming the binding constraint is left to the reader | ● Little’s Law and Theory of Constraints name the binding constraint — tiles drill through to the people behind the number, and counts reconcile |
| Inequalities | Reported alongside operational metrics | ● IMD / CORE20PLUS5 weighting built into waiting-list ranking and population analytics — a lens on every list, not a separate report |
| Exit | Rebuilding on a different platform | ● An export, not a rebuild — openEHR and FHIR R4 by right; partners integrate with no access toll |
| Cost | National licensed platform | ● £1 per instance · optional support — no national licence |
Stated plainly, because a comparison that concedes nothing isn’t credible.
| The FDP has | What that means here |
|---|---|
| National scale and mandate | A national programme with central funding, national data flows and centrally-negotiated information governance. None of that’s something a self-hosted platform can grant itself. |
| National datasets | Access to central flows that a self-hosted instance has to be granted separately, on its own application. |
| An established assurance route | A national assurance path already walked, which a local deployment has to walk for itself. |
The Flow Edition includes a Trust Data Console implementing the NHS FDP Canonical Data Model (DAPB4121), emitting schema-validated extracts against the published CDM object schemas.
The Flow Edition is the open, FDP-parity base (£1 per instance). Three additive packs layer their domain modules on top — run the base alone, or add one or more.
The FDP-parity operational products, integration & data hub and open standards — everything described above.
Are outcomes, equity, value and flow improving, and where to deploy next — honest, counterfactual benefit measurement. /outcome-intelligence /leftshift
Policy-to-process, the incident→risk golden thread, board & BAF, regulatory assurance, IG and e-signature. /policy-to-process /golden-thread
Segmentation, deprivation and inequalities, neighbourhood working and cohort-to-action. /population-health /neighbourhood-intelligence