An app that must be updated to get care, and if your device is too old or unsupported, that’s your problem. No digital care for you.
(We have more on this, delayed by… literally everything else… which is a little too on the nose on prioritisation)
When they say “app”, the they mean only the app you get from Apple/Google stores. Other digital interfaces are being deprecated then will get funding cut and go away.
bsky.app/profile/pete...
The UK Biobank report
medconfidential.org/2026/rory-de...
We’ve seen the Biobank report with the UKB Board’s acceptance of the loss of personal data given to them by the NHS and others, and saying Biobank executives say that it wasn’t Biobank’s fault while being silent on who knew what when as it interviewed no other staff. More soon
The National Data Guardian wasn’t told about Palantir staff having access to identifiable data www.gov.uk/government/n...
Ministers decided to support the creeps and ghouls medconfidential.org/2026/second-...
When ITCrowd Tom (in the other place) says Palantir can hold cancer patients hostage to keep the FDP contract, he’s currently right. Here’s what the NHS should do about it
medconfidential.org/2026/one-pla...
The thing about online safety policy is that it basically breaks people's brains. I truly believe that at least some of the intense projection of adult anxiety onto young people reflects the relationship those adults have with their own devices and social media accounts
