Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears Palantir has secured a £330 million ($412 million) contract to provide the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), which the world's largest healthcare provider says is vital to recover from its pandemic backlog. After a delay of more than eight weeks, NHS England said the data analytics technology from Palantir would support the …
"Okay, can we just accept that UK government doesn't give a shit about its citizens and move on from there ?"
That's the unfortunate truth.
What's also the inconvenient truth is that the opposition are likely to be no better in this regard. So we have no hope at all on the matter.
What are you blithering on about?
"Nu" Labour are on record as saying that they will rely on the private health care services in the UK to "Help" the NHS, ignoring of course "New" Labour were the ones who started the sell off.
What's more, it's on record that Starmer has received financial backing from John Armitage who's hedge fund is heavily involved in private healthcare. There are others on the front benches of this current Tory-lite Labour party who have received donations from similar people with similar interests.
I could not, the same as everyone else, give a rats fart about Starmer and COVID breaches. I'll call him Sir Beer Korma because it's about the most interesting thing about the walking wax work, unless of course I call him Sir Kid Starver over his comments over children going hungry in this country.
What we're interested in is the morals of this man and what he's doing to a party that was set up for the interests of workers in this country. Selling off the NHS, incorporating more private healthcare in to it leading to more money being syphoned off from the state in to the pockets of private individuals matters, and this charlatan and the rest of his gang are relying on two things to avert peoples eyes from this:
1) We're Labour we invented the NHS
2) We're less shit than the Tories.
Shadow Health Secretary Wes "McShitter" Streeting has stated outright that he welcomes private health care in the NHS.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/08/people-in-pain-private-hospitals-nhs
By a strange coincidence, McShitter has also received more than £140,000 in donations from private health care providers - making it his primary source of income over and above his MP's salary.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/06/labours-love-affair-with-private-healthcare#:~:text=In%20January%202022%20and%20April,UnitedHealth%2C%20America%27s%20largest%20health%20insurer.
Starmerite Labour's position on practically every Tory policy of the last year has taken the form "These policies are harmful. We will not reverse them when we are in government. In fact, we don't think they go far enough."
While I share your concerns, not changing the dirty laundry guarantees no improvement.
That and the new found levels of political incompetence demonstrated by obsession with Brexit, Badenoch, Braverman and a bunch of other cunts on the take could not be more in plain sight if you tried.
I think 'routine elective' can be a tad misleading. For example, someone who suffers from debilitating but non-progressive back pain might have a spinal fusion operation described as routine and elective. However, they'd still likely react rather poorly if you suggested they could do with waiting a little longer.
NHS England said no company involved in the FDP would be able to access health and care data without the explicit permission of the NHS. All data within the platform is under the control of the NHS and will only be used for direct care and planning.It will not be used to access data for research purposes and GP data will not feed into the national version of the software platform.
- this is a pack of lies only a child would believe.
There are no plans to flow this data nationally
- we haven't got round to planning this yet and we don't want a fuss about it, but that's what we'll do.
The problem with spending all this money - or committing to spend it - is that NO-ONE I've spoken to really knows what FDP will actually *do*, what value it will add - so of course this smacks of corruption. It's just a black box which exists at national and regional (ICS) levels. It would be excellent if NHSE - or Palantir! - could actually provide some specific claims of functionality and value. No "NHS Operating System" responses please, like we've had before - that's just nonsense!
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