{"id":35038,"date":"2026-11-09T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/09\/british-people-dont-trust-palantir-its-not-too-late-to-reverse-the-nhss-dependence-on-it-ben-coleman\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:00:02","slug":"british-people-dont-trust-palantir-its-not-too-late-to-reverse-the-nhss-dependence-on-it-ben-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/09\/british-people-dont-trust-palantir-its-not-too-late-to-reverse-the-nhss-dependence-on-it-ben-coleman\/","title":{"rendered":"British people don\u2019t trust Palantir \u2013 it\u2019s not too late to reverse the NHS\u2019s dependence on it | Ben Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can\u2019t allow our health data to be locked into the control of a US tech firm. It won\u2019t be easy, but next spring the job of clawing it back must beginBen Coleman is Labour MP for Chelsea and Fulham and a member of the health and social care committeeNext March, Palantir\u2019s \u00a3330m contract to run NHS England\u2019s federated data platform (FDP) ends. Ministers must decide by Christmas whether to extend it. They should move on from Palantir, and transition to new suppliers that put the NHS in full control of its technology and patient data.I sit on the health and social care committee.<\/p>\n<p>In June, we recommended no extension \u2013 people don\u2019t trust Palantir, its benefits are contested and other tools could deliver the same or similar advantages. The debate so far has been whether to drop Palantir. The harder question is what replaces it. The tempting solution is to hire a single British firm.<\/p>\n<p>But that would not give the NHS the control it lacks: the freedom to switch supplier without losing what it has built.Ben Coleman is Labour MP for Chelsea and Fulham and a member of the health and social care committee Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can\u2019t allow our health data to be locked into the control of a US tech firm. It won\u2019t be easy, but next spring the job of clawing it back must beginBen Coleman is Labour\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}