louis mosley and Foxglove Legal asked people to email their MP over Palantir's role in the NHS Single Patient Record debate. The campaign says the government should guarantee Palantir will not get the new contract, while Parliament debates the King’s Speech legislation today and Monday.
Foxglove said all GPs and hospitals in England could be forced by law to hand over complete medical records with names on them to Palantir. It pointed to the £330m NHS Federated Data Platform contract Palantir won three years ago, which runs until February 15, 2027.
Palantir and the Single Patient Record
The campaign call comes as the government has put legislation in the King’s Speech to create a single patient record for each NHS patient. Reporting from suggested the new law would force GPs and hospitals to share health data for those records. Foxglove said Palantir had already talked to the government about the Single Patient Record.
Foxglove asked supporters to tell MPs to press Wes Streeting to use the Palantir break clause now. The group said the issue is not just the new record system, but who would hold the underlying data if the government awards the work to Palantir.
Westminster Drop-In With Martin Wrigley
On Monday, Foxglove co-hosted a drop-in session in Westminster with Martin Wrigley MP. The session invited MPs, peers and their staff to hear briefings on Palantir, and Foxglove said it was supported by groups representing doctors, patients and pensioners.
Foxglove said the point of the email campaign is to get MPs to demand a guarantee from the government that Palantir will not be given the contract for the new Single Patient Record. That leaves lawmakers with a direct choice while the King’s Speech debate is under way and before ministers decide whether to move against the existing federated data deal.
NHS England and the break clause
The Financial Times reported that Palantir had been given unlimited access to identifiable health records for hospitals already using its NHS Federated Data Platform tools. NHS England had claimed that Palantir would not get unlimited access to identifiable health records.
That dispute sits next to the contract timetable. Palantir won the £330m FDP deal three years ago, and it is due to run until February 15, 2027. Foxglove says the current moment is a chance to cut Palantir out of its biggest NHS contract before that date arrives.
