@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
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2d ago
Emeritus Prof. Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
Retired Professor of Political Economy; now enjoying the fediverse.
mastodon.me.uk
The claim is Palantir's technology allows major improvements in NHS performance.
But, having crunched the numbers the FT has concluded this relies mostly on results from *one* hospital (Chelsea & Westminster Royal United) with only a further four hospitals showing any significant gains at all.
A third of all hospital trusts have actually seen a *decline* in performance after deploying Palantir's tech.
But of course the successful hospital is near Westminster, odd that!
#NHS #Palantir
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@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
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Jun 11, 2026
Emeritus Prof. Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
Retired Professor of Political Economy; now enjoying the fediverse.
mastodon.me.uk
As Roy Lilley (NHSManagers.net) points out:
'Patients do not experience separate targets. They experience one NHS.
Success should be measured by whether it becomes easier & faster for patients to move through it'.
This is right on the button; while seeming to offer a strategic handle on the NHS actually targets often distort & compromise the patients' actual experience of health care.
Too often targets are used to obscure a lack of understanding to the real problems!
#NHS #Health #politics
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#PullThePlug on #Palantir Demonstration
#Manchester 8am June 11th
"the Manchester Central Convention Complex is hosting the #NHS ConfedExpo - the biggest NHS Conference of the year.
This ConfedExpo will be the last one before the UK government could terminate its contract with Palantir and use the break clause early next year. We'll be outside of the conference to make our voices clear - we back the break clause and want Palantir out of our NHS!"
Protest Briefing link (google docs.... ugh):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7W2w_LZnPCXgfexysE_Mnka5UckVqy4XdQUF9HWu5Y/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.rpakspeke5dv
#Activism #AI
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@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
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Jun 06, 2026
GrumpyOldFart
@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
I’m an elderly lefty, living in South West England who’s looking for a nice place in the fediverse where I can share/ learn/ politely disagree etc with others & (occasionally) vent my frustrations & concerns about the parlous state of the world that my grandkids are growing up in! When I’m not “doom scrolling” I enjoy gardening, bird watching, bread baking & being the best granddad I can be.
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Is Peter Thiel’s Palantir the most evil company in the world …. along with all the other “tech-bro” $billionaire outfits?
Quite possibly!
Recommended read & please boost!
“The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials”
by Charlie Young, Ian Tucker & Carole Cadwalladr in The Nerve
@uk_politics @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud @NHSrCommunity@fosstodon.org @nhsactivistrn@mas.to @NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire@mstdn.social @ZackPolanski@mastodon.green @kein_palantir_bw@sueden.social @palantirwatch@kolektiva.social
“The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an ‘acute’ corruption risk”
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-revolving-doors-peter-thiel-transparency-corruption-risk
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Government #Labour #Starmer #MOD #NHS #Thiel #Karp #Israel #IDF #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #Genocide #AI #Lavender #Corruption #Sovereignty #DataSovereignty #RevolvingDoor #ICE #Trump #Mandelson #Epstein #Watson
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@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
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Jun 06, 2026
GrumpyOldFart
@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
I’m an elderly lefty, living in South West England who’s looking for a nice place in the fediverse where I can share/ learn/ politely disagree etc with others & (occasionally) vent my frustrations & concerns about the parlous state of the world that my grandkids are growing up in! When I’m not “doom scrolling” I enjoy gardening, bird watching, bread baking & being the best granddad I can be.
expressional.social
Is Palantir the most evil company in the world?
Answers on a postcard!
“Palantir is turning the NHS into a tool for mass surveillance”
by Jade-Ruyu Yan and Aman Seth in OpenDemocracy
@uk_politics
@palantirwatch@kolektiva.social
@NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire@mstdn.social
@NHSrCommunity@fosstodon.org
@nhsactivistrn@mas.to
@UKLabour@mastodon.cloud
@ZackPolanski@mastodon.green
“NHS England’s Federated Data Platform, run primarily by controversial US military contractor Palantir, would give a future UK government the ability to use patients’ healthcare data to unleash unprecedented mass surveillance, experts and technologists have warned”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/palantir-is-turning-the-nhs-into-a-tool-for-mass-surveillance/
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #NHS #FederatedData #Palantir #Surveillance #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #Epstein #Starmer #Labour #GoodLawProject #Resistance #Thiel #Karp #Fascism #Racism #Dictatorship #CIA #Ontology
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@MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz
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Jun 04, 2026
MiaK 🏴 🇵🇸
@MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz
Books, gardening, anti-fascism, politics, inept cello-ing, word nerdery, folklore (Morris dancing not so much) and all the other good stuff. Zionists, centrists, TERFs and racists need not apply. Down with colonialism, imperialism and capitalism. Independence for all who want it and above all, a free Palestine. She/her
syzito.xyz
Seems the Israel lobby now controls the NHS staffing policy.
"NHS staff could be barred from wearing.. pro Palestinian symbols on their uniforms ... [this] is one of several recommendations in a review into antisemitism within the NHS"
Something tells me the yellow ribbon wouldn't fall into the necessary category.
#UKPolitics #FriendsOfGenocide #NHS
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@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org
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Jun 03, 2026
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org
We fight for digital rights (UK). Join us. #privacy #freespeech #surveillance #censorship #dataprotection
social.openrightsgroup.org
MPs want Palantir OUT of the NHS and the UK public sector!
ORG has long warned about our dependency on Big Tech – from vendor lock-in to security risks from foreign-owned companies.
Chi Onwurah MP has echoed our call for Digital Sovereignty to ensure we have control over our critical infrastructure.
Read more ⬇️
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/03/uk-lawmakers-call-on-government-to-ditch-palantir-nhs-contract/5250150
#digitalsovereignty #palantir #nhs #bigtech #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol
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@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
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Jun 01, 2026
GrumpyOldFart
@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
I’m an elderly lefty, living in South West England who’s looking for a nice place in the fediverse where I can share/ learn/ politely disagree etc with others & (occasionally) vent my frustrations & concerns about the parlous state of the world that my grandkids are growing up in! When I’m not “doom scrolling” I enjoy gardening, bird watching, bread baking & being the best granddad I can be.
expressional.social
Must watch & please boost!
“The beginning of the end of Palantir?”
via The Crispin Flintoff Show feat. activist & anti-Palantir campaigner Heiko Koo on YT
@uk_politics @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud
“Sadiq Khan has dropped a major contract with Palantir and it looks like the wheels are coming off the AI company’s bandwagon.
Heiko Khoo has been one of the company’s biggest critics and here he pieces together how Palantir operates and how it is now in grave danger”
https://youtu.be/_xRBRUCr90Y?si=AZ1r7OknSJ7ca3t5
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Flintoff #Palantir #NHS #MOD #MetPolice #Contract #Khan #Cancellation #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #AI #Gaza #MassMurder #IDF #Iran #IranWar
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@Edent@mastodon.social
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May 01, 2026
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social
Longer hair than you. Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode. Open Standards / Source / Data geek. Known as @Edent on most social platforms. Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk. Please read the link before replying. Yes, that means you!
mastodon.social
🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source”
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories.
Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
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#government #nhs #OpenSource #politics
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📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/1j8z5KhJd2poqPCeK8inyt 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️
Die zunehmende Akzeptanz einer umstrittenen Schuldzuweisung stellt die Grundlagen des Strafrechts in Frage.
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@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org
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Apr 22, 2026
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org
We fight for digital rights (UK). Join us. #privacy #freespeech #surveillance #censorship #dataprotection
social.openrightsgroup.org
The problem with our dependency on Big Tech is evident in Palantir's NHS contract.
Signing up to a 'subscription service' for one company's exclusive software leaves us with nothing when we end the contract.
With open source, we don't have to start again with a new platform when changing vendors.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/palantir_nhs_break_clause/
#BigTech #palantir #nhs #DigitalSovereignty #opensource #UnplugBigTech #ukpolitics #ukpol
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@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org
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Apr 22, 2026
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org
We fight for digital rights (UK). Join us. #privacy #freespeech #surveillance #censorship #dataprotection
social.openrightsgroup.org
Handing out contracts to Big Tech platforms is a rip off.
If we don't like the over-charging, tax-dodging and exporting profits overseas, we face the nightmare of vendor lock-in.
They own the software, so love it or lose it.
We call for UK Digital Sovereignty to turn the tide.
Sign if you agree ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty
#BigTech #palantir #nhs #DigitalSovereignty #opensource #UnplugBigTech #ukpolitics #ukpol
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@junesim63@mstdn.social
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Apr 21, 2026
JuneSim63 💚
@junesim63@mstdn.social
Retired researcher living in Nottinghamshire, England. Hull native. #Socialist #Politics #Environment #Cats #Gardening #Wildlife #Opera #ClassicalMusic #Refugees #HumanRights #AlcoholFree #WearAMask #GreenParty She/Her Avatar: Me, a white woman with short, greying brown hair. Wearing a large pair of red spectacles. Header: Climate Stripes going from blue on the left to terrifying red on the right.
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This website is an eye opener. It shows how much profit is being ripped out of the NHS by privatised healthcare. You can put in your postcode and it shows how much your local area is losing.
#NHS #Privatisation
https://www.nhsprofitmap.org.uk/
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@TheKeystoneCollective@infosec.exchange
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Apr 21, 2026
The Keystone Collective
@TheKeystoneCollective@infosec.exchange
Where curiosity meets the keyboard, and chaos finds clarity. #technology #cybersecurity #infosec #hacking #surveillance https://www.keystone-collective.org
infosec.exchange
Watching ministers talk about NHS data strategy is like watching someone confidently rewire a house with no understanding of electricity. The language sounds polished, the reassurances are endless, but the substance just isn’t there.
Choosing a company like Palantir isn’t a neutral technical decision. It’s a long-term structural commitment with real implications for control, access, and public trust. Yet it’s presented as a simple procurement exercise.
And when political careers move on, as they always do, there’s rarely any reckoning for decisions that reshape public infrastructure for decades. That asymmetry should concern everyone.
#technology #surveillance #nhs #politics #ice #ethics #society #data
Palantir: NHS pilot’s “success” is questioned as second figure at major trust is linked to the tech giant | The BMJ
https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s680
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us has moved
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This account is now @ChrisMayLA@mastodon.me.uk
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We know that the NHS has a (partially hidden) culture of management bullying, so we might have expected that those staff criticising the use of Palantir in the NHS (on which I posted a couple of weeks ago) might be subject to managerial pressure... and sure enough they have been.
The FT reports analysts complaining about Palantir have been threatened with the sack if they do not buckled down & use the disputed technology.
Unsurprising but unwelcome & divisive!
#Palantir #NHS #health
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us has moved
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This account is now @ChrisMayLA@mastodon.me.uk
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The NHS is (and has been for such a long time) suffering budgetary constraints, but now we know where a slice of that shortfall is going: In two years private health providers made £1.6bn in profits from their work in the NHS.
Supporters of private provision will claim that money is a reward for extra productivity & efficiency; more realistically we know these firms are cherry-picking treatments & transferring patients back to the NHS when problems arise.
#NHS #health
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/13/private-companies-nhs-services-profit-chpi-research
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@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk
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Apr 12, 2026
Steve Woods
@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk
Semi-retired linguist and self-taught geek. Pro-EU, pro-open source. Undocumented naturalised Bristolian. Unapologetic left-winger and republican.
mastodonapp.uk
Health secretary says he cannot solve striking doctors’ problems in just two years.
Resign then.
You are not up to the job.
#NHS
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/wes-streeting-bma-doctors-strike-england-b2956032.html
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This account is now @ChrisMayLA@mastodon.me.uk
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Having awarded a major contract to (controversial) data firm Palantir, a growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work with the firm's tools for ethical reasons, with wider passive resistance to its deployment.
One manger said: 'People are saying, ‘I refuse to work on this software. You have to find something else for me to do’... They’re calling it a workplace adjustment. [as] if you were disabled & needed a different desk, they’re literally treating it like that'!
#NHS #Palantir
h/t FT
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@tiggy@mastodonapp.uk
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Apr 02, 2026
Tiggy
@tiggy@mastodonapp.uk
Aka Tricia. Retired statistician. A writer, poet, singer, tutor, disabilty advisor, and more . Physically disabled and neurodivergent (including being dyslexic). I love reading, especially #Asimov, #Pratchett. Still looking for a decent 'writes as well as #GeorgetteHeyer' author. I do varied voluntary work, mainly education or disability related but I run a death cafe too Trustee of a disability charity. #filker #disabled #Bahai #Poet #writer #SafeguardingAdvisor #Statistician #SchoolSpeaker
mastodonapp.uk
BlackRock, an American company who donated to Trump's election campaign, are buying up GP surgeries in the UK then increasing rents, taking more money from the NHS for CEO and shareholder profit.
I just signed the petition.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/blackrock-nhs-not-for-sale
Note my charity transferred from BlackRock share management over a year ago because we favour ethical investing and they'd decided to support Trump. (Using profits from our money to support any politician wasn't in line with our policies.)
#NHS
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Thank god! Signs that the lights are coming on re Palantir and the NHS.
‘a growing recognition that the issue of Palantir and potential reputation risk had moved beyond the Labour left and Greens, who have led criticism in the past’
‘When you look at some of the things Palantir’s leaders have said in the States, when you look at their political views and their outlook … If you were to put [Thiel] and some of those Palantir bosses on the political spectrum in the UK, they would be well off to the right of even Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative party’
Let’s get them out of our data
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/31/palantir-uk-boss-louis-mosley-ministers-nhs-contract
#nhs #palantir #peterthiel #wesstreeting #nationalhealthservice #health #uk #guardian #ukpolitics #data #ai
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