Medact

No Palantir in the NHS - South Yorkshire public meeting
2026-01-26 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Quaker Meeting House 10 St James Street, Sheffield, S1 2EW
Medact Sheffield are hosting a public meeting bringing together stakeholders, concerned residents, and health workers across South Yorkshire, to discuss how we can take collective action to keep Palantir out of our NHS.

Palantir is a US-based tech firm specialising in data. The use of their software extends from military targeting in Palestine, leading to them being named by the UN as a corporate actor in the genocide in Gaza, to racist predictive policing tactics and many other ethically intolerable practices.

Since 2021, NHS England and the UK Government have been entangled in deals with Palantir lacking any transparency. In 2023, they were awarded a contract for the national rollout of the ‘Federated Data Platform’ (FDP), a platform that looks to process patient data between different sectors of healthcare. Many of the South Yorkshire NHS healthcare providers are in the process of adopting the FDP.

We do not believe that the NHS should be doing deals with the likes of Palantir. They cannot be trusted, they are enabling a genocide, deals like this will only deepen societal inequalities, and it will further entrench and continue the insidious privatisation of our NHS.

It is possible to stop the rollout of the FDP! Health trusts and boards have the power to say no to the FDP and opt for an alternative, as we are already seeing in other areas of the UK. We believe this is possible in South Yorkshire, but only with you and collective action! Let’s send a strong message to NHS England and the UK Government that Palantir and companies like it are not welcome in our NHS.

Join us to find out more about the campaign and how we can strategically take action within South Yorkshire to say NO PALANTIR IN THE NHS.Doors open at 6:30pm with food provided, and the event will begin at 7:00pm. It’s a hybrid event, taking place in person at the Quaker Meeting House and online via Zoom.If you can’t make this public meeting but want to find out more, contact us on sheffield@medact.org or check out the toolkit here https://www.medact.org/2024/resources/toolkits/no-palantir-in-the-nhs-campaign-toolkit/
