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NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey plans to tell Palantir to clear future claims about benefits from its £330 million Federated Data Platform with his team, The Register reports.

Mackey told MPs that making the arrangement stick could be difficult to enforce under the contract. The move follows scrutiny of claims about the platform’s impact, including a caveat that other factors mean NHS England cannot draw conclusions about cause and effect. It is a modest but useful shift: benefit claims may face closer scrutiny, though the proposed letter is not the same as an enforceable safeguard.

Discuss: Should suppliers have to get NHS approval before making public claims about benefits from publicly funded technology?

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