UK is granting Palantir ‘unlimited access’ to NHS patient data

All about brow envelopes under the table.

This alone should be sufficient cause for a revolution — and not from the “Reform” direction either.

What does an American defence contractor require access to NHS patient data for exactly

Jesus Christ. There’s making a deal with the devil then there’s this.

“Anyone external requiring access must have government security clearance and be approved by a member of NHS England staff at director level or above.”

Quote from an NHS spokesperson… Unsure as to whether that means external to NHS or external to Palantir, hopefully the NHS. Otherwise, this is an absolute disaster waiting to happen. If the staff are appropriately vetted by govt, then it’s potentially not as bad as it sounds and if it helps make the NHS better, we should maybe have a slightly open mind… (Probably an unpopular opinion)

>”Critics warn expanded access could increase the risk of a major data breach”

It seems like giving Palantir access to detailed user medical data is already a major data breach given their nefarious practices.

Thank fuck health is devolved

If you think “who would be stupid enough to do this?”, remember that UK left the EU

> NHS England will create an “admin” role, granting [Palantir](https://www.palantir.com/uk) staff “unlimited access” to the NDIT and identifiable patient data, the FT added.

NHS England is granting access to NHS England patient data. The UK is not.

bruh

Nice to see the US isn’t the only country voluntarily working with the Evil Empire.

At least we’ll be going down together, UK.

I’m absolutely disgusted. We petition against this and this is the response…. The levels of corruption are unreal

I legitimately question if we all just collectively lost our sanity at some point because how can it be that no matter where I look we’re making the dumbest choices possible, can we all for just a bit stop killing, exploiting, raping, abusing, bullying, hating and do so many more awful things to each other? It feels so obvious to any normal person so how come that again and again were getting proposals for chat control, this bullshit, new wars, whatever the fuck happened with Epstein etc, all the billionair greed that gets supported like it’s the most normal thing in the world? Where’s the pitchforks and activities from a certain time in Frances history that I probably can’t even mention here without getting a complaint/ban from reddit?

WHYYYYY?!

This extremely worrying isn’t doctors stuff supposed to be private now it’s been given to right wing american fascists?

Is there anyway to stop this? Anything someone worried about their data held by the NHS can do about this?

Why do I feel like I’m in the opening montage of a dystopian or post apocalyptic movie. You know where they are showing news reels showing headlines or snippets of the building blocks of the fall?

WTAFFFFF??????

I hate that these evil companies are named after things from LOTR. Tolkien would never.

Well, that is a stupid decision, and I am sure will result in many horrible consequences.

Wonderful, let’s fork over our sensitive personal information to a foreign defence firm literally named after a cursed artefact used by the embodiment of pure evil to spy on people. I see *no way* this could possibly go wrong.

I hate it here.

All the British I’ve seen on their respective news channels, wagging their fingers at Americans for having to deal with the trump problem, seem to forget that their own Brexit was orchestrated by the same money and entities behind trump. and here we are, watching them feed palantier, one of the companies trying to destroy democratic society. unreal.

Well why aren’t we protesting?

As someone working in IT projects with large enterprises, I can confirm that this sort of move is a very bad idea, and in 2026 almost no serious IT admin would grant that type of access. It shows very bad judgement on the part of the NHS.