Warwickshire health campaigners make their voices heard over US tech giant's involvement in the NHS
Health campaigners in Warwickshire are making their voices heard, as part of a national campaign against a US tech giant's involvement in the National Health Service (NHS).
Last year, Palantir was awarded a £330 million contract to run the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) – a centralised data system - and since then opposition has grown.
In March this year, a report by the health justice charity, Medact, backed by doctors, lawyers, patients and human rights groups, including Amnesty International, was sent to hospital trusts and integrated care boards nationwide, urging them not to implement Palantir’s FDP.
Government guidance has been sent to every trust in NHS England, which states they should all be using Palantir's 'core products' in hospitals. Following that, Campaign group South Warwickshire Keep our NHS Public (SWKONP) sent a Freedom of Information Request (FOI) to South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT), about whether it had signed up to Palantir's FDP.
Anna Pollert, from SWKONP, said: "The FOI to SWFT found that the Trust has been using Palantir’s FDP since March 2025. When asked whether it had considered the merits or de-merits of using it, SWFT replied that non-disclosure “outweighs the public interest in disclosure” and referred SWKONP to a heavily redacted report of January 23 2026."
She added: "The campaign “No Palantir in the NHS” wants NHS England to terminate the contract. Partnering with Palantir, it argues, risks weakening patients’ trust while 'driving out locally tailored and trusted data solutions'.
"It seems that SWFT has not taken onboard Medact’s, doctors’, patients’ and human rights groups’ urgings to NHS Trusts to cut Palantir out of their data centralisation plans. The only hope is that as opposition to Palantir’s huge role in the UK public sector grows, SWFT, and other NHS Trusts, will cancel their contracts."
Questions about Palantir's involvement in the NHS have been raised in Parliament. However, Labour MP Alex McIntyre, who sits on the Commons Health and Social Care select committee, defended Palantir's involvement in NHS contracts.
"We've been really clear, we have red lines here, the data must stay in the UK, it must be NHS owned," he told BBC's Politics Live.
"That is really clear, and we've been really clear that Palantir in any provider doesn't have access or cannot share patient data for their own use."
Appearing on the same BBC programme, Palantir UK executive vice-chair Louis Mosley said: "I think those of us who use the NHS, the lived experience is one of disconnected, fragmented systems, explaining who you are to a different person on every ward, at the front desk.
"Joining up that information is what we are doing for the NHS."
He also said that "we have no interest in patient data in the UK".
Both the South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) and Palantir have been approached for comment but have not yet responded.
The campaign “No Palantir in the NHS” will be publicised at the Keep our NHS Public and Amnesty stalls at the forthcoming Leamington Peace Festival on June 13-14.