IT Essentials: Scandal-in-waiting

Open season on the NHS

Tom Allen
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Palantir is scooping NHS contracts left, right and centre
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Palantir is scooping NHS contracts left, right and centre

The government launched (and controversially awarded) a host of technical contracts for the NHS this week. But the future of the health service's IT remains in doubt.

Another year, another plan to revamp the NHS's IT. There have been several attempts to move to a shared records system since the £12.7 billion failure of the National Programme for IT in 2011, and ...

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