No Palantir in the NHS

Medact have been lobbying against US spy-tech firm Palantir becoming a partner to create a Federation Data Platform for the NHS. 

NHS England was awarded a £330 million contract to US spy-tech Palantir to create a platform. There has been a lack of transparency with patients and medical professionals on where and how the data will be used. The contracts have been heavily redacted leaving people out of the loop. 

In 2025 Palantir CEO, Alex Karp said: “Palantir is here to disrupt…and, when it’s necessary, to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them.” 

Human rights organizations like Amnesty International in 202 stated: “there is a high risk that Palantir is contributing to serious human rights violations of migrants and asylum seekers by the US government” and that Palantir was failing in its responsibility to “avoid causing or contributing to human rights abuses”

Palantir are not new, they have provided software to the US military for wartime operations in Iraq and Afghanistan (a 2006 Lancet study estimated over 600,000 Iraqi deaths)

Medact’s mission is to support health professionals from all disciplines to work together towards a world in which everyone can truly achieve and exercise their human right to health. 

https://www.medact.org/2026/resources/briefings/briefing-palantir-fdp/