Admittedly @PHE_uk's July 2020 leadership organagram* shows its "Data & Analytical Sciences" function is "Vacant" - and it seems #JBC's the one recruiting a whole bunch of data & behavioural scientists (as well as other sorts) but then, with its...
...£9 BILLION* budget(!), the secretive spook-run** #JointBiosecurityCentre - with its powers to set national #AlertLevels & to advise (trigger?) #LocalLockdowns - is, it seems, becoming quite a law unto itself.
...of #transparency about #JBC is quite extraordinary; we're learning more about this powerful new "Directorate" from job ads and reports of staff turnover (which seems pretty high, at senior level) than from @DHSCgovuk, GOV.UK or @10DowningStreet combined.
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Nah. This is another puff piece on the #WaitingList pilot, details of which @NHSEngland published - without daring to mention @PalantirTech - over ten months ago...
To be clear, 30 individual NHS Trusts* are using #Palantir#Foundry to manage elective care waiting lists, not patients' entire medical histories - largely by what Ministers have called "cleansing" the data:
Why is this so important? Because #SharedCareRecords - which every new #ICS* is supposed to have - include your #GPdata, which @NHSEngland has been trying to get hold of for years (most recently last summer)...
So let’s talk about where things got up to with your #HealthData, before Rishi Sunak started talking about the need to generate trust in Government with “#integrity” and “#accountability”…
N.B. The chair of NHS Digital announced today’s meeting would be the last public meeting of the Board...
With the news that the Government is rushing through @NHSEngland’s takeover of the statutory safe haven (@NHSDigital) with about the level of planning that went into the 'fiscal event', where exactly *are* things as the former/new Sec State starts work?
First, beginning on page 158, are some Directions that @NHSEngland must know will be HIGHLY controversial - given they are telling @NHSDigital to use @PalantirTech's #Foundry to collect *patient level identifiable data* from hospitals...
I'll tweet as I do a read-through, but even these first two paragraphs are incoherent, e.g. "...in a way that will enable." Enable what?
And if @NHSEngland Directs NHSD to use #Palantir, NHSE is *determining the purposes and means of processing* - i.e. it is a #DataController...