Federated Data Platform agreement merits pre-action letter from Good Law Project
The legal campaigners pointed out that NHS England's decision to award the FDP contract to Palantir had been pilloried by doctors' union the British Medical Association as well as Amnesty International, an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights.
Redacting large chunks of the contract was not just completely unacceptable but unlawful, it added:"Government policy requires public bodies to give reasons when contracts are redacted, but despite the massive scale of the redactions in Palantir's contract no reasons have been given. "Clinicians will easily have access to the information they need to do their job – in one place – freeing up time spent on administrative tasks and enabling them to deliver the most appropriate care for patients," it said.
In a briefing published about the FDP contract at the end of 2023, NHS England said:"Key lessons have been learned from previous data programmes including the need for a) transparency and b) data to be held in secure environments with the correct checks and balances in place.
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