The National Health Service (NHS) Federated Data Platform (FDP) stands as one of the most consequential and politically fraught infrastructure procurements in modern British public administration. Awarded in November 2023 to a consortium led by the United States data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, the contract carried an overall ceiling of £330 million across a potential seven-year term, with £182.2 million committed directly to Palantir for its proprietary Foundry ope

Few technology contracts in the history of the NHS have generated as much interest, scrutiny and hostility as the Federated Data Platform. Awarded to Palantir Technologies in November 2023 with a headline value of up to £330 Million over seven years, the FDP was billed as the digital backbone that would finally join up the NHS's notoriously fragmented data estate. Nearly three years on, the platform is live in the majority of English acute trusts, NHS England is publishing q