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NHS Rejects Palantir’s £330M Data Platform Amid 44,000 Objections

By Drooid · Oct 17, 2026, 10:12 AM UTC · How we work

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NHS trusts are rejecting Palantir's £330 million federated data platform.
More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections to sharing health data with the platform.
NHS data show trusts using the platform performed 117,000 extra operations and cut discharge delays by 14.3%.
NHS England warned it cannot link those outcomes to the platform because variables were uncontrolled.
Two parliamentary select committees have urged the government to end the Palantir contract.

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NHS trusts are rejecting Palantir's £330 million federated data platform.
More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections to sharing health data with the platform.
NHS data show trusts using the platform performed 117,000 extra operations and cut discharge delays by 14.3%.
NHS England warned it cannot link those outcomes to the platform because variables were uncontrolled.
Two parliamentary select committees have urged the government to end the Palantir contract.