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There’s a lot I’d take exception to here, but
I’ll highlight two:
(1) the misinformation
Palantir does not own NHS data. We cannot use it, sell it, or move it. It stays inside each NHS trust, under NHS control, and the contract is the NHS’s to end whenever it likes. You may be right about NHS data being a goldmine, but it is not one Palantir can monetise, or would want to.
(1) the double standard
Your chief concern seems to be that Palantir’s contract with NHS is akin to letting “a foreign, state-adjacent company into critical national infrastructure.” You should apply this concern consistently then.
Yesterday, NHS England announced that 505,000 staff will get Microsoft 365 Copilot. The NHS also runs on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google. All are US firms. All have the same “deep roots in US defence and immigration enforcement” you mention with regards to Palantir. If US ownership, and having certain US government clients, are disqualifying tests, then surely these should apply equally to every such company?
Either US technology in the NHS is a sovereignty problem (in which case maybe the relevant news today is the 505,000-seat deal signed with Microsoft). Or it isn’t, in which case perhaps singling out Palantir isn’t really about sovereignty at all?
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“The FDP is driving faster diagnoses, faster referrals, faster treatments, and faster discharges. Our priority remains the patients who rely on this continuous improvement.”
Not my words, but those of the chief digital officer for the NHS in March this year. She continued:
“By staying focused on the delivery of these benefits, alongside data security, we will continue to prove the value of this programme through outstanding results.”
I am extremely proud of how Palantir is helping the NHS provide patients with the life-saving care they deserve. However, that is now being threatened by the ideological objections of those more interested in the actions of foreign governments than the fates of British patients. It is right that Parliament should scrutinise government procurement, but all evidence points to the success of the NHS Federated Data Platform.
Following an 18-month open competition assessed by 30 independent evaluators, Palantir has already helped the NHS deliver more than 110,000 operations that would not otherwise have happened, nearly 300,000 patients have been discharged from hospital sooner, and tens of thousands more patients have told within 28 days whether they have been diagnosed with cancer. The Government’s infrastructure authority rates it green, its highest delivery rating awarded to just 30 of 213 major projects, and reckons it returns almost five pounds for every one spent. You would think a record like that would be celebrated.
Instead, the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has urged ministers to cancel Palantir’s NHS contract, with no view on what would replace it. To cancel a working public contract over ideology rather than results is to make patients and the public pay the price.
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