 Sloman was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for his services to the NHS.Sloman was a keen advocate of the Royal Free Trust's collaboration with DeepMind which, he said, could free up over half a million hours per year currently spent on paperwork and help improve patient safety.However, the Trust's transfer of 1.6 million patients' data to UK artificial intelligence firm DeepMind (acquired by Google in 2013), failed to comply with the Data Protection Act and was illegal, as "Royal Free should have gained the consent of patients before handing the personally identifiable medical records to DeepMind for processing", the UK’s data protection watchdog (Information Commissioner's Office) ruled in 2017.