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29 NHS trusts said to benefit from Palantir don’t use it, Guardian reports
NHS England lists 29 hospital trusts as “realising benefits” from Palantir’s data platform. Those trusts say the system is not live, or that they do not use any of its applications. Robert Booth reported the findings for the Guardian on Monday.
The answers came from more than 100 freedom of information requests.
Medact, a medical charity that campaigns to remove Palantir from the NHS, filed them and shared them with the Guardian. TNW has not independently verified the responses.
One senior health official called the gap between NHS England’s claim and the trusts’ answers “very misleading”, the Guardian reported.
NHS England’s own figures say 142 trusts are live on the Palantir NHS data platform and 137 are reporting benefits. The £330m federated data platform began rolling out in April 2024.
It aims to join up scattered medical records,…
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