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NHS data to go to big US tech company ?
Friday, 22 September 2023 04:24 pmhttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/14/our-health-data-is-about-to-flow-more-freely-like-it-or-not-big-techs-plans-for-the-nhs
From a 38 Degrees email:
Under plans to build a new centralised NHS database, for-profit tech giants could soon have access to our medical history. The Government is about to award a £500 million contract to build the database to a big tech company. The frontrunner, Palantir, has a Trump-supporting CEO with links to anti-birth control start ups. It’s alarming - but nothing is set in stone.
That’s why, together, we need to shine the spotlight on these questionable deals being negotiated right now. A huge petition, signed by hundreds of thousands of us, is the perfect first step in kicking off a massive campaign that leaves the Government in no doubt that we, the British people, demand that our NHS data doesn’t end up in the hands of big private tech companies.
You can sign a petition calling on Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, to keep NHS records out of the hands of big for-profit tech companies?
SIGN THE PETITION
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/keep-nhs-patient-data-out-of-the-hands-of-big-tech-companies-petition
The NHS holds some of the richest sets of population-wide health data in the world but right now it’s largely stored in different GP offices, hospitals - all over the place. [4] To improve efficiency, the Government wants to bring it all together in a centralised database. It would help caregivers make quicker and more robust decisions and improve how the Government targets services and healthcare spending.
Lots of us agree this needs to happen - but it's need to be done the right way, with patients put before profits. Because scandals, like Google’s AI firm DeepMind using NHS patient records to build their own apps, shows how powerful data in the wrong hands could be misused.
That’s why back in 2014 when the Government tried to introduce this system, with the involvement of big private tech companies, we kicked off a massive campaign that gained heaps of press attention, got the NHS around our negotiating table and ultimately forced the Government to abandon their plans. But the dust has settled and now they're trying to quietly push this through again. We won then and with your help we can win again.
From a 38 Degrees email:
Under plans to build a new centralised NHS database, for-profit tech giants could soon have access to our medical history. The Government is about to award a £500 million contract to build the database to a big tech company. The frontrunner, Palantir, has a Trump-supporting CEO with links to anti-birth control start ups. It’s alarming - but nothing is set in stone.
That’s why, together, we need to shine the spotlight on these questionable deals being negotiated right now. A huge petition, signed by hundreds of thousands of us, is the perfect first step in kicking off a massive campaign that leaves the Government in no doubt that we, the British people, demand that our NHS data doesn’t end up in the hands of big private tech companies.
You can sign a petition calling on Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, to keep NHS records out of the hands of big for-profit tech companies?
SIGN THE PETITION
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/keep-nhs-patient-data-out-of-the-hands-of-big-tech-companies-petition
The NHS holds some of the richest sets of population-wide health data in the world but right now it’s largely stored in different GP offices, hospitals - all over the place. [4] To improve efficiency, the Government wants to bring it all together in a centralised database. It would help caregivers make quicker and more robust decisions and improve how the Government targets services and healthcare spending.
Lots of us agree this needs to happen - but it's need to be done the right way, with patients put before profits. Because scandals, like Google’s AI firm DeepMind using NHS patient records to build their own apps, shows how powerful data in the wrong hands could be misused.
That’s why back in 2014 when the Government tried to introduce this system, with the involvement of big private tech companies, we kicked off a massive campaign that gained heaps of press attention, got the NHS around our negotiating table and ultimately forced the Government to abandon their plans. But the dust has settled and now they're trying to quietly push this through again. We won then and with your help we can win again.
