Unison Cambridge University & Royal Papworth Hospitals

30/04/2026

Great news!

30/04/2026

https://www.unison.org.uk/events/navigating-immigration-changes-support-for-international-health-and-care-staff/

To mark International Nurses Day, UNISON is hosting this national webinar to raise awareness, share key information, and highlight where support is available.

21/04/2026

Speaking in parliament, Jeremy Corbyn, Your party parliamentary leader called for an independent inquiry into the wider Mandelson affair and described “a gilded friendly web” around Mandelson “under which favours were done, contracts apparently awarded, this ghastly company Palantir trying to get hold of our National Health Service apparently at the behest of Mandelson and others”

Zack Polanski, the Green party leader, said in a letter to the health secretary, Wes Streeting: “Was the government’s decision to trust this controversial company with British people’s most sensitive and personal health data made on the basis of what’s best for our country – or was it yet another dodgy backroom deal brokered by Mandelson for the benefit of his rich pals?”

Chi Onwurah, the chair of the science and technology committee, said: “We need the full picture on Mandelson’s involvement. Anything else risks irreparable damage to public trust.”

💙 Please sign the petition
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-palantir-taking-over-our-public-services

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16/04/2026

It’s time for Labour to get serious about rebuilding our NHS.

That means massive new public investment in healthcare instead of more money for war, and a decisive end to privatisation and outsourcing.

My speech to our health conference today 👇

https://www.unison.org.uk/news/2026/04/every-billion-spent-on-foreign-wars-is-a-billion-not-spent-on-our-nhs/

16/04/2026

A new government housing report has left the UK’s buy-to-let community stunned this week, with suggestions that, in certain circumstances, some investment properties may be used as ‘homesR…

15/04/2026

As many of our members can attest:

“PFI contracts are a scam!”

14/04/2026

Your branch team supporting a motion to ensure that members working above their contracted hours are

A) paid!
And
B) paid at the correct rate

14/04/2026

14/04/2026

NHS staff have been told they might lose their jobs if they criticise NHS England’s controversial £330m contract with IDF-contractor Palantir.

According to the FT, an analytics officer who had raised concerns about Palantir’s Federal Data Platform (FDP) was told by a senior NHS official: “If you criticise the FDP one more time, you are going to lose your job.”

“I know I am not the only one inside the NHS who has been warned off criticising the tool publicly,” the analytics officer added.

In January 2024, Palantir announced a strategic partnership with the Israeli government to support “war-related missions”, meaning its tools are being used in a genocide. It also provides technology to immigration enforcement in the US, and founder Peter Thiel has provided financial backing to Donald Trump.

Citing ethical concerns, the British Medical Association (BMA) has instructed union members not to adopt Palantir’s Federal Data Platform.

In February, BMA chair Tom Dolphin told the British Medical Journal: “Given Palantir’s track record, including controversies in the US involving immigration enforcement and the risks to patient trust, data security, and NHS independence, we believe there must be a complete break from Palantir technologies in the NHS and no further contracts awarded.”

But staff told the FT that NHS organisations are under pressure to sign up voluntarily to the Palantir data system. Technicians working on alternative systems have been told to stop in their tracks.

“When letters go out saying, ‘Sign this or we’ll call your chief executive’, that doesn’t build goodwill,” said an analytics official. “It creates compliance, not commitment.”

Palantir boasts contracts across British public services, with its technology already embedded in the police and the military.

Last month, two anonymous Ministry of Defence officials told journalists at the Nerve that Palantir’s deepening knowledge of the British state poses “a national security threat to the UK”.

123 out of 205 NHS hospital trusts have already adopted Palantir’s data system.