NHS

Campaigners claim patient privacy concerns around new data platform

Concerns over patient data ethics, Palantir's lobbying tactics and costs aren't going away

Tender for FDP platform also set to be announced imminently

NHS England seeks suppliers to facilitate better patient communications and online consultations

Secrecy is no way to run the NHS

Controversial big data analytics firm Palantir has been awarded the £0.5 billion contract to create an NHS patient data platform, pending ministerial approval, according to health news website Digital Health.

'Bluntly, it is the wrong company to put in charge of our precious data resource'

'This process is a mess', say campaign groups

'How do you work out what's real and what's not real?'

Move comes ahead of expected announcement of Federated Data Platform contract award