Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares

A report for a Northern England health authority says its analytics platform is more capable than anything offered under a controversial central government deal with Palantir.

The Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) set out red lines for its adoption of the government's Federated Data Platform (FDP), which the US spy-tech biz is building under a £330 million ($442 million) seven-year contract awarded in November 2023. The award followed a series of non-competitive deals with the vendor totaling £60 million ($70 million) that established several use cases present in the FDP.

The report to the Greater Manchester ICB, which manages health services for 2.8 million people, said:

"The NHS [Greater Manchester] Data, Insight and Intelligence Team have been in close contact with the national FDP team since its inception. Our assessment is that our local capability exceeds anything the FDP currently offers and that some of the capabilities ...