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By Liz S

“Patients and campaigners have been raising concerns about Palantir’s creeping involvement with the NHS for years based on concerns about ethics, outsourcing, and privacy”..

Palantir a private company, not a UK one, an American one.

But doesn’t the Labour Dame, also a Labour MSP, as in Jackie Baillie, just always love to tell us that patients in Scotland have to go private as they cannot get treatment on the NHS………..surely that is her promoting private healthcare and private companies linked to healthcare, in a kind of clandestine way……

As in “private” is better than the “NHS”.

Of course she , Ms Baillie, knows all about private healthcare , as her party at HQ both encourage it and endorse it as something they want to see more of within the UK’s NHS, including within Scotland’s NHS.

So then just what is Ms Baillie’s beef upon private healthcare use within Scotland ?

They also, Labour HQ, love to take political donations from Private Healthcare companies , but what are these private Healthcare companies expecting from Labour, as a UK government, in way of a return for their political donations ?

Wes Streeting , the Labour UK (English) Health Secretary once said on Private healthcare “”We’re going to be holding the door wide open and encouraging them to come in”.

Well a private healthcare company did personally donate to him, Streeting, so come one , he has to want to help them in return……..surely ?

And who better to help them, as private healthcare companies, than a Labour UK government Minister for Health !

So again , what then is Ms Baillie’s beef on private healthcare being used by patients in Scotland ?

As it is a Labour HQ adopted strategy, to have more privatisation involvement within the NHS going forward.

Mind you Baillie’s words and accusations cannot be trusted as in February 2025, she was accused of “quoting a nurse working in the south-east of England to describe the state of the NHS in Scotland“.

As “The specific quote utilized by Baillie regarding a patient’s death reportedly appeared on page 266 of the report, which detailed accounts from staff working in the south-east of England, not Scotland”.

So as you stated (in bold) in this post:

“As Mandelson case exposes the risks of using US company Palantir for health data, how Nicola Sturgeon’s government made sure it didn’t happen in Scotland two years ago“.

That then shows why we, Scotland, need real political representation both within the Scottish parliament and , for now, also within their UK parliament while we are still a part of their UK.

As in real political representation from those Scottish politicians (SNP) who will not put our personal data at risk to private American companies like Palantir, where it seems certain UK political parties as UK governments , all seem to be a tad gung-ho , or is it reckless, in respect to their attitudes and behaviour upon the personal data of their citizens , in this obvious (to us but not to them) bad practice that they have adopted.

Is there no end to Labour’s scandals………..quite “controversial” really , this “fiasco” of a new Labour UK government and also seemingly , as a new UK government, a bit of a “catastrophe”……..

(The same could also be said for the previous Tory UK government as well, but let’s not forget Reform UK’s position on this, with them also supporting and endorsing more private healthcare for the UK if , that is, they win the next GE , so they too should get no credit for being any different to the existing mainstream UK parties within their UK ).

So much for independence for Scotland being the real threat to their UK and also supporters of it being labelled as the “extremists” within their UK !

Liz S

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