Thread by @EinsteinsAttic

Nah. This is another puff piece on the #WaitingList pilot, details of which @NHSEngland published - without daring to mention @PalantirTech - over ten months ago...

england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp…

https://twitter.com/tianran/status/1608121467341766656

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:

palantir.com/uk/healthcare/

*Though @NHSEngland won't say which ones...

The timing (and placement) of the piece is, however, quite obvious - with the tender for @NHEngland's "#FederatedDataPlatform" imminent.

And the #FDP - whether awarded to #Palantir or otherwise - is most definitely something people will have concerns about, especially given...

...@NHSEngland's confirmation in November that it intends to "incorporate" every NHS patient in England's #SharedCareRecord into its #FDP, and then use that information for purposes OTHER than their #DirectCare:

https://twitter.com/EinsteinsAttic/status/1591797085304938497

Please note, while @PalantirTech draws a lot of fire here - quite possibly tactically so - the problem is as much with the patient #DataHeist that @NHSEngland is trying to pull off - only a year or so after its attempted GP #DataGrab - as with the company NHSE pays to do it.