chrisjjNHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns
> The US technology company was awarded a £330 million contract in 2023
The total contract value was £182,242,760 over 5 years.
For context that's Roughly 0.0002% per year of NHS budget.
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/2e8c61c0-f...
That would imply that their annual budget was £1.8e14, which I seriously doubt.
Even if I assume that you meant 0.02%, which is equal to 0.0002, that would put their budget at £1.8e12, which I am also strongly inclined to doubt.
The NHS's actual current annual budget is £195.6B in 2025/2026 [1]. The contract value declared at the link given above is £182M over 5 years. So:
100 × ((182/5)/196000) = 0.019%
Which, to me, still seems too high a number for a data management function: I make it about 1000 persons-worth of per-capita GDP.
[1] https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/financial-performance-u...
