Palantir's NHS Access Draws Parliamentary Alarm Over Patient Data

The shift from public unease to parliamentary condemnation is not semantic — it changes what NHS England must now answer for publicly. When MPs characterize Palantir's data access as 'dangerous,' they are attaching that word to a £330 million contract that was already contested. The institutional consequence is that backlash over expanded Palantir access to patient data now has a formal record inside parliament, not just on Bluesky. NHS England's own internal warning about the "risk of loss of public confidence" — written before the parliamentary intervention — means the…