NHS insiders slam Palantir contract

A glorified spreadsheet, a white elephant, or something more sinister?

After years of warnings about privacy, dodgy procurement and a slow ebbing away of patients’ trust, the NHS in England announced on Tuesday it had offered a £330 million contract for a major data platform to a group led by U.S. spytech firm Palantir. 

There’s little question that NHS data does need reorganising. Made up of hundreds of hospital trusts, do…