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From the Herald’s Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco today:
Tech firm with NHS Scotland contracts to sell ICE-linked subsidiary – A French tech company with Scottish Government contracts will sell its US subsidiary after it emerged the firm had engaged in people-tracking operations for ICE.
The Herald reported last week that Capgemini had provided IT services to a number of public entities in Scotland, including NHS Scotland, SAAS, and the Care Inspectorate.
On Sunday, following backlash from French politicians, the tech firm announced it would divest from its US subsidiary – which signed a deal worth up to £365 million “to obtain skip tracing services for Enforcement and Removal Operations”. https://archive.ph/zOXwf#selection-1653.0-1713.160
Obtuse or whit? Are you getting this? Has John Swinney done good in contracting this French IT company?
If you read and have a wee think, it’s good, very good, but I’m not sure most readers will take the time to find out that this is, should have been presented as, SNP-GOOD!
So, we’ve hired a French techie company for NHS Scotland and others and after seeing all that dreadful violence in Minnesota by ICE agents, Josh discovers the French lads at Capgemini have dumped, on a matter of principle, their US subsidiary because it was helping ICE find victims?
That’s really good. Well done SNP Government for choosing that ethically-sensitive French company instead of……….oh, the one NHS England and UK Labour prefer.
Who? Thanks to Dorothy, this lot:
From the FT in December 2025:
The UK should “leverage” its new health data storage service for the “benefit of the Treasury coffers”, a health minister has said, as well as accelerating the discovery of new treatments for NHS patients. Zubir Ahmed said in an interview that the government’s new Health Data Research Service (HDRS) will give researchers a single access point to national datasets for the first time and unlock “the power” of NHS data. “There is no shame in saying, we have world leading examples of high quality care and high quality research, and we should be leveraging that for the benefit of the Treasury coffers, and patients and citizens in this country,” the health innovation minister told the Financial Times.
https://www.ft.com/content/0531e76b-a800-450f-8a10-ac5ada1b2695
The minister is surprisingly ill-informed.
In the Guardian, 30 August 2025:
Public sector workers have voiced “deep concern” after Coventry city council signed a £500,000-a-year artificial intelligence contract with the US data technology company Palantir.
The deal is the first of its kind between a UK local authority and the Denver-based company, which supplies technology to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and to help Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.
Palantir already has a number of public sector contracts in the UK, including providing AI to help tackle organised crime in Leicestershire and building the new NHS federated data platform. Keir Starmer toured the company’s Washington office in February with its chief executive and co-founder, Alex Karp. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/30/coventry-city-council-signs-ai-deal-contract-palantir-technologies
It was the deal to handle NHS England patient data which prompted Ian Murray, Governor General for Scotland, to accuse FM John Swinney of somehow being old-fashioned, ‘analogue‘, and letting patients in Scotland down.
The truth is, you will not be surprised, somewhat different.
There are no suggestions that Palantir is being considered for any role in NHS Scotland.
There’s some detail about Scotland’s National Digital Platform
While NHS Scotland does have plans to work with industry partners, only Astra Zeneca UK and Lenus Health have signed a memorandum of understanding. You can read more on this at: https://www.digitalhealth.net/2022/09/nhs-scotland-set-for-transformation-with-new-collaboration/
While Lenus Health is a digital consultancy managing patient data, they are compliant with User-Managed Protocols enabling patients to control what data they share and who can access it. You can read more on them at:
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