Healthcare campaigners turn up the heat on Palantir at Labour conference

Campaigners, NHS leaders, and lawmakers are intensifying pressure on the UK government to avoid extending Palantir’s NHS Federated Data Platform deal, highlighting growing concerns about vendor lock-in, trust, data governance, and the strategic risk of relying on a single high-profile supplier for critical public-sector workflows. For CIOs and technology leaders, the case underscores that major platform decisions now carry not only operational and cost implications, but also reputational, regulatory, and political exposure—making exit plans, evidence of value, and alternative sourcing strategies essential parts of IT governance.