NHS England Drops Claim That 137 Trusts Use Palantir AI Tools

At a glance

NHS England has removed a website claim that 137 hospital trusts benefit from Palantir's AI health data system. The Guardian found that 29 of those trusts do not use all or most of it.

Key points

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   NHS England listed 137 trusts as benefiting from a federated data platform (a system that pools health information from many bodies).

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   After 29 trusts said they did not use it, the original list appears to have been taken down.

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   Ministers are considering extending Palantir's £330m contract to 2029.

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   The statistics watchdog is examining the NHS's claims about how widely the system is used.

Why it matters

Handing public health data to a private company makes it important whether the government exaggerated the system's benefits without evidence.