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We campaign to put patients and the
#NHS
before profit. ✊
pinned post!
We’re suing the government to protect the NHS! We are challenging the government’s unlawful power grab over NHS drug price controls – and we need your help to take them to court.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-nh...
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The fingerprints of former big pharma exec, Patrick Vallance, are all over the terrible US-UK deal that puts hundreds of thousands of lives at risk and raids the
#NHS
to boost pharma profits. His exit should make it easier for
@andyburnham.bsky.social
to back away from this dangerous deal.
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Patrick Vallance resigns as science minister - Research Professional News
Vallance stands down for “personal reasons”, as Andy Burnham prepares to unveil new ministers
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-politics-2026-7-burnham-set-to-name-top-team-as-science-minister-vallance-resigns/
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Very important publication by
@medact.bsky.social
It shows exactly *how* the NHS replaces a
#Palantir
-owned FDP with an NHS-owned one. Beyond Palantir’s FDP: Building NHS Data Systems Fit for the Future:
www.medact.org/2026/resourc...
@goodlawproject.org
@foxglovelegal.bsky.social
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Beyond Palantir’s FDP: Building NHS Data Systems Fit for the Future - Medact
This briefing intends to inform MPs and NHS Leadership about the potential to move away from the FDP, and invest in NHS-led data infrastructure.
https://www.medact.org/2026/resources/beyond-palantirs-fdp/
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Keep Our NHS Public
3 days ago
Our latest podcast jointly with
@thedauk.bsky.social
hosted by
@drstevetaylor.bsky.social
explores how Pharma politics influences drug prices. We examine how the US, Big Pharma & UK Govt have been complicit in failing the NHS, and all of us. With
@justtreatment.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Eg...
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Drug cheats? - The US-UK Pharma Deal
YouTube video by Not the NHS Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8EgqFO5HDs
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We joined MPs and health experts in Parliament this week with a message for Andy Burnham: pull out of Trump's deadly NHS drug deal. Analysis shows this deal could cost £45bn and 229,000 avoidable deaths. Find out more ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Our patient leader Raj on why the US-UK pharma deal is a disaster for the NHS 👇 If the NHS is forced to pay more for drugs, patients pay the price - with delayed treatment, rationed care, and lives lost.
add a skeleton here at some point
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If you keep the NHS's budget the same but DOUBLE how much it pays for drugs, there is only one result: Patients suffer, and many die. Andy Burnham must rip up the US-UK pharma deal. Sign the petition:
vist.ly/5be3y
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🚨 The government agreed an NHS drug price hike with Trump's administration, and neither the public nor MPs have had a say in it. It could cost the
#NHS
billions and push services to breaking point. We will not sit back while the government puts lives at risk to please Trump...
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🚨The "evidence" that Palantir is helping NHS patients has collapsed. Four trusts admit the data behind the 15% drop in discharge delays is riddled with errors, irregularities across 42% of trusts. Scrap Palantir's contract - trigger the break clause!
novaramedia.com/2026/07/13/d...
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Data Showing Palantir’s Positive Impact on NHS Riddled With Errors
Data supporting claims that Palantir’s technology has improved services for NHS patients is riddled with errors, several hospital trusts have admitted.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/13/data-showing-palantirs-positive-impact-on-nhs-riddled-with-errors/
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Today we were in Parliament with
@globaljusticenow.bsky.social
&
@johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social
to brief MPs on the dangerous US-UK pharma deal. This Trump-led deal will cost the
#NHS
billions and lead to hundreds of thousands of patient deaths, in order to boost pharma profits. It must be scrapped.
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🚨 We're in Parl briefing MPs on the NHS drug pricing deal. Signed behind closed doors with Trump, with no public debate and no vote by MPs. It could cost the NHS billions and lead to more deaths than COVID. It must be scrapped: that’s why we’re challenging it in court.
@justtreatment.org
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Four years ago today, Mathew lost his mum Jackie. She waited 11 hours for an ambulance after a fall. Two days later, she died from sepsis. 4 years on, these delays are still costing lives. The PM must invest in our
#NHS
- now! 🔁 Share to demand action.
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This week the government's PIP review admitted that the assessments are dehumanising, degrading & not fit for purpose. But it ruled out any change that increases spending - we won't let tweaks repackage cuts as reform. Read our full response ⬇️
justtreatment.org/news/timms-r...
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The PIP process is systemically failing mad & disabled people — Just Treatment
Mad Youth Organise responds to the interim findings of the Timms review
https://justtreatment.org/news/timms-review
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🚨 ANOTHER parliamentary committee has urged the government to trigger the break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract! Committee chair
@laylamoran.bsky.social
said: "Little by little, the government’s arguments for sticking with the FDP has unravelled" 👀 Get them out!
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MPs urge Labour to ditch £330m Palantir software contract with NHS
Cross-party group backs call from science and technology committee to look at alternative options, citing ‘serious mistrust’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/09/mps-urge-labour-to-ditch-330m-palantir-software-contract-with-nhs
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"We’ll kill our poor people to make your rich companies richer”😡😡 Starmer's deal with Trump will cause deaths. Burnham must tear it up Join us,
@justtreatment.org
and
@globaljusticenow.bsky.social
at Parliament Square at 12noon, Mon 13th July:
tinyurl.com/Red-Card-Tru...
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Keep Our NHS Public
13 days ago
Along with
@justtreatment.org
& 17 other health related orgs and unions as part of the SOS NHS Coalition, we have written to prospective PM
@andyburnham.bsky.social
to ask him to meet us, and to urgently change course on the NHS.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Burnham urged to ditch ‘dangerous’ UK-US NHS drug deal
Exclusive: health groups call on expected next PM to rip up agreement, which analysis suggests could lead to 229,000 excess deaths by 2036
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/07/burnham-urged-to-ditch-dangerous-uk-us-nhs-drug-deal
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🚨 BREAKING: We've joined with 18 other health campaign groups and unions to write to
@andyburnham.bsky.social
, urging him to invest in the NHS and protect our health service from profit-making corporations - including ditching the dangerous US-UK pharma deal. ⬇️
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Burnham urged to ditch ‘dangerous’ UK-US NHS drug deal
Exclusive: health groups call on expected next PM to rip up agreement, which analysis suggests could lead to 229,000 excess deaths by 2036
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/07/burnham-urged-to-ditch-dangerous-uk-us-nhs-drug-deal
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On Monday 13th we are heading to Parliament to give MPs an urgent briefing on the dangers of the Trump-led US-UK pharma deal. 💊 We need as many MPs as possible to be there. Will you join over 1500 others in writing to yours today? 👇
@globaljusticenow.bsky.social
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Urgent briefing on US-UK drug pricing deal: invite your MP!
Public and political pressure is growing against the dangerous Trump-led US-UK drug pricing deal, which will see NHS medicine prices hiked in order to boost big pharma profits. Since we and Global Ju...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urgent-briefing-on-us-uk-drug-pricing-deal-invite-your-mp/
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Thank you to
@owenjones.bsky.social
for covering the dangerous US-UK pharma deal in depth with our Director Diarmaid. We cannot let our government get away with sacrificing NHS patients' lives in order to boost pharma profits & please Donald Trump.
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This Secret Deal Could Kill More Brits Than Covid
YouTube video by Owen Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3K4fzGASM
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Analysis out today reveals the Trump-led US-UK drug pricing deal could lead to the preventable deaths of 229,000 NHS patients. We're heading to Parliament on 13th July to make sure every MP understands what's at stake. Invite your MP now - takes 2 mins⬇️
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
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Urgent briefing on US-UK drug pricing deal: invite your MP!
Public and political pressure is growing against the dangerous Trump-led US-UK drug pricing deal, which will see NHS medicine prices hiked in order to boost big pharma profits. Since we and Global Ju...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urgent-briefing-on-us-uk-drug-pricing-deal-invite-your-mp
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🚨Burnham set to ditch Palantir from NHS We hope that this is true but we need to see concrete commitment and until we have that we won't stop fighting to get Palantir out of the NHS.
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/02/burnham-set-to-ditch-palantir-from-nhs/
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🚨A national scandal. New analysis reveals the true cost of the government's US pharma deal with Trump: £44.7bn pulled out of the NHS by 2036 and up to 229,000 avoidable deaths, more than Covid. That's why we are taking legal action...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests
Analysis reveals extent of impact on NHS of placating Donald Trump over price of British medicine exports
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/01/us-uk-drug-deal-could-result-in-229000-excess-deaths-in-england-analysis-suggests
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Great to see a mention of our and
@justtreatment.org
's work in Parliament as MPs called for gov to come clean on the true costs of the US-UK medicines deal. This deal with Trump could cost BILLIONS, and hundreds of thousands of lives - yet has not been subject to a democratic vote.
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As temperatures soar to life-threatening levels and our struggling
#NHS
comes under immense strain, this week has been a stark reminder that the struggles for climate justice & health justice cannot be separated. ⬇️
#heatwave
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Extreme heat is a health justice issue — Just Treatment
Heatwaves driven by the climate crisis are putting our health and lives at risk - so the fights for climate justice and health justice must go hand in hand.
https://justtreatment.org/news/2026/6/26/extreme-heat-is-a-health-justice-issue
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On International Nurses Day, we asked patients to share a message of solidarity for NHS nurses. 🤝 We received over 1000 messages, which we've published online:
justtreatment.org/nurses-support-messages
Share this with a nurse you know 💙
@rcn.org.uk
@nhsworkerssayno.bsky.social
@unison.org.uk
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Messages of support for NHS nurses — Just Treatment
https://justtreatment.org/nurses-support-messages
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Two thirds of UK taxpayers agree with us: Big Tech companies are not paying their fair share. ⬇️ That's why we're calling for a 4% tax on the profits of Big Tech giants to fund urgently needed NHS mental health care. Join us:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/tax-big-tech-fund-mental-health-services/
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UK taxpayers want higher levies on big tech companies, survey shows
Two-thirds of respondents support increasing the 2% digital services tax for multinationals
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/22/uk-tax-higher-levies-big-tech-digital-services
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How cystic fibrosis families built their own route to affordable treatment, after Vertex priced Trikafta out of reach for most patients around the world. Read the full story in the
@nytimes.com
:
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/h...
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Loophole in Patent Law Brings ‘Miracle Drug’ to Patients Who Can’t Afford It
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/health/cystic-fibrosis-drug-triko-trikafta.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.daHY.4Ra8IAi9atP-&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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🚨Palantir and NHS England say their NHS data platform delivered huge gains. But analysis shows most of the gains come from just a few hospitals. And nearly a third of hospitals using it did fewer operations. Trigger the break clause. Scrap the contract!
www.ft.com/content/a3e9...
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Palantir NHS claims rely on just a few hospitals
Data shows some trusts have delivered fewer operations since adopting the US company’s technology
https://www.ft.com/content/a3e94197-87a8-4ba5-8a6d-4b7193993af9?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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🚨Vertex Pharma charges $370,000 a year for a drug that keeps people with cystic fibrosis (CF) alive - pricing it out of reach. So CF families built their own access: Triko, is the same medicine but 95% cheaper ⬇️
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🚨Vertex Pharma charges $370,000 a year for a drug that keeps people with cystic fibrosis (CF) alive - pricing it out of reach. So CF families built their own access: Triko, is the same medicine but 95% cheaper ⬇️
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🚨 BREAKING: Today, the first patients with cystic fibrosis received Triko, the affordable generic version of lifesaving treatment Trikafta. At Beximco in Bangladesh, families collected medicine they have been priced out of for years because of Vertex’s unaffordable prices.
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🚨Ministers are feeling the pressure on Palantir. The government has been forced into a full review of its £330m NHS data contract, with a parliamentary committee telling them to trigger the break clause and end the deal. They should listen.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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UK reviewing Palantir's NHS contract amid pressure to use break clause
Britain is conducting a full review of its National Health Service contract with U.S. data analytics firm Palantir , amid growing political pressure for the government to use a break clause at the e...
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/uk-reviewing-palantirs-nhs-contract-amid-pressure-use-break-clause-2026-06-09/
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The Trump administration is now pressuring European governments to copy the UK's drug pricing deal and pay more for medicines. We said this deal was a disaster for the NHS and that's why we're challenging it in court!
www.politico.eu/article/us-d...
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Trump’s drug pricing war comes for Germany
U.S. and German officials are meeting in secret to talk about drug prices.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trumps-drug-pricing-war-comes-for-germany/
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🚨 SOS NHS coalition response to the first official corridor care figures ⬇️ This is a national emergency, and must be dealt with as such - through investment in NHS beds, staff & social care.
#NHS
#NHScrisis
#corridorcare
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Now Trump comes for Europe’s health services. Learn from us, don’t give in. As Diarmaid from
@justtreatment.org
says “The UK struck a terrible deal. Permanent weakening of drug price controls that were the envy of the world … In return for bugger all” 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-d...
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Trump’s drug pricing war comes for Germany
U.S. and German officials are meeting in secret to talk about drug prices.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trumps-drug-pricing-war-comes-for-germany/
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🚨More than 1,300 patients a month are dying because of long A&E waits in England - a tenfold rise in a decade. 300+ deaths a week in 2025, up from 30 a week in 2015. The
#NHS
is being starved of the staff and beds to keep people alive.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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More than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggest
Senior medical staff call for solutions to tackle root causes of excess deaths amid tenfold increase in a decade
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/08/more-than-1300-deaths-a-month-in-england-due-to-long-ae-waits-figures-suggest
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#Palantir
in the
#NHS
: how many more warnings, scandals and leaks will it take for their contract to be cancelled? ❌
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🚨We've filed papers to take the government to court over the price the NHS pays for medicines. A trade deal with Trump should not be allowed to push those prices up with no vote and no scrutiny. Our case, with
@globaljusticenow.bsky.social
, in
@bmj.com
:
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
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about 2 months ago
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New health secretary James Murray says he'd no longer call trans women women, and wants NHS single-sex spaces set by biological sex. The job of a health sec is to protect everyone’s health. Denying trans patients dignity pushes an already marginalised group further from care.
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We and
@justtreatment.org
are taking the UK Gov to court over its unlawful power grab over NHS drug price controls! But if we’re to see this case through, we need to raise more - and we have two weeks left to do it. Help us take this fight all the way.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-nh...
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Resist Trump’s NHS attack: stop the unlawful drug pricing power grab!
Just Treatment is a patient-led health justice organisation. Global Justice Now is a non-profit fighting the causes of poverty and injustice.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-nhs-drug-price-powergrab
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🚨 Even Parliament's own Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is now urging the government to trigger the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract, warning it leaves patients' data at the mercy of foreign actors. Keir Starmer, James Murray - are you listening?
news.sky.com/story/palant...
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Palantir's role in UK public services branded 'unacceptable' by committee report
The US tech company has been involved with bodies including the NHS and the Financial Conduct Authority. A new parliamentary report warns the government risks becoming overreliant on the firm, potenti...
https://news.sky.com/story/palantirs-role-in-uk-public-services-branded-unacceptable-by-committee-report-13550291
about 2 months ago
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🚨 Wes Streeting appointed a health dept secretary who held stakes in 12 firms with public health contracts, including a children's care firm that hiked council fees by 10% to £128K per child. When private interests run the NHS, patients pay the price.
www.ft.com/content/710e...
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Top health official held shares in key children’s home operator
Samantha Jones, permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care, had multiple private-sector interests
https://www.ft.com/content/710edf8e-35a5-4efa-afca-89d40d796aea?syn-25a6b1a6=1
about 2 months ago
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"My personal pride and joy" - that's how Peter Mandelson described the Palantir deal he brokered as UK ambassador, while the US spy-tech firm was still a client of his lobbying company. Palantir holds NHS contracts worth millions - activate the break clause and get them out!
about 2 months ago
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NHS patients are being treated in corridors, waiting rooms and even store cupboards. Long A&E waits before admission are linked to thousands of preventable deaths a year. The SOS NHS coalition is demanding investment to end corridor care. Write to your MP today:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell your MP: take action to end NHS corridor care
Every day in hospitals across the country, NHS patients are being treated - or forced to wait for treatment - in corridors, waiting rooms, queuing ambulances or even store cupboards. Corridor care po...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-mp-take-action-to-end-nhs-corridor-care-2/
about 2 months ago
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“Khan is right to block Palantir’s deal with the Met. Now let’s cancel their NHS contract.” Hope Worsdale (Just Treatment) on why Palantir is no partner for the
#NHS
, and why the government should trigger the break clause. Read in full ⬇️
labourlist.org/2026/05/block-palantir-nhs-contract
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'Khan is right to block Palantir deal - now let's cancel their NHS contract' - LabourList
How many more leaks or scandals will it take for the government to admit that Palantir is an inappropriate and dangerous partner for our NHS?
https://labourlist.org/2026/05/block-palantir-nhs-contract
about 2 months ago
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When Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary, he claimed Labour had "delivered" on the NHS. Yet patients are still dying in corridors & ambulances. We handed him 10 demands before he left. Now we're asking his successor James Murray to honour the commitment to respond ⬇
about 2 months ago
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🚨 The NHS spent a record £241m last year paying private firms to read scans, with NHS staff often having to recheck the work. Too few radiologists and not enough training posts. Fund training instead!
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms
Radiologists say ‘ballooning’ costs reflect staffing failures, forcing a reliance on lower-quality private scan reports
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/25/nhs-spends-record-241m-outsourcing-scan-analysis-to-private-firms
about 2 months ago
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A social media ban for under-16s blames young people for the harm Big Tech is causing. We took young people's voices to the door of the government department deciding on the ban. Read the
@the-independent.com
coverage:
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
about 2 months ago
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🚨The government's consultation on banning under-16s from social media closes today. They aren’t asking the important questions about how we can make social media safe for everyone. So we've asked young people that question and now we’ve made sure the government can't ignore us…
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about 2 months ago
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🚨The government's consultation on banning under-16s from social media closes today. They aren’t asking the important questions about how we can make social media safe for everyone. So we've asked young people that question and now we’ve made sure the government can't ignore us…
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Quiet Majority
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The
@goodlawproject.org
and
@justtreatment.org
have made it *very* easy for us to say No to Palantir in our NHS trusts. Your postcode gives a customised email they've written for you. It takes seconds. Please send one now, using the link below. 🙏
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/
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