NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns

NHS England plans to change how it evaluates the success of the controversial Palantir data platform that is being rolled out across the health service after staff highlighted flaws in the analysis.

Emails obtained by the Financial Times via a freedom of information request show the health service intends to modify how it calculates two of its headline figures about the performance of the Federated Data Platform (FDP) in the next quarterly update, more than a year after the data was first published. 

The changes will affect two of NHSE’s most widely cited claims: that hospitals using the FDP have delivered 110,000 additional operations and that they have registered a 15 per cent reduction in discharge delays.

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Source: Financial Times, 3 August 2026