NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits

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Campaigners say ministers repeated claims about FDP despite an admission that the data does not prove cause and effect

A campaign group has written to the UK health minister to force him to clarify data used by the government in Parliament to justify its controversial £330 million investment in a data-sharing system supported by Palantir.

The Register understands that the UK's regulator for the use of statistics in the public sector is assessing how the government is using data to justify its use of Palantir technology.

The move follows an investigation challenging claims by NHS England that as of June, 139 trusts used the Federated Data Platform (FDP), with 137 reporting benefits. An Inpatient Care Coordination Solution (CCS) tool based on the FDP had resulted in 111,589 additional patients undergoing procedures in operating theatres, it said.

However, a Freedom of Information request from campaign group Foxglove later found...

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