What were NHS execs thinking signing a contract with palantir?

Either they are completely ignorant about what palantir is and who it's owned by (would be very concerning) or they are corrupt and were bribed.

chrisjj 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Or those execs are ignorant about their staff's concerns.

i_love_retros an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

down voted by all the tech bro billionaire wannabes on hackernews

no british person would down vote this - at least not one with any integrity

	▲	basket_horse 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Or, the non politicized take is that they think the software could improve the data landscape of the NHS, which, if we are bring honest, has a lot of room for improvement.

imdsm 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Reductive take

	▲	stevesimmons 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There have been recent articles in the FT about a man (who surname, funnily enough, sounds like swindle) who was an advisor to Palantir while also being chair of 4 NHS Trusts and pushing the trusts to put more of their data into Palantir. Definitely not a conflict of interest...