12th April 2026

Streeting’s clinics are funded by BlackRock
The government is allowing BlackRock to finance the rollout of up to 200 neighbourhood health centres, with the aim of having one in every community by 2035. BlackRock, one of the world’s largest asset managers, already owns 65 NHS GP surgeries.

Committee has doubts about Palantir & NHS data
Chi Onwurah is a Labour MP who heads the science, parliament’s innovation and technology select committee. She flagged concerns in three areas: how the contract was awarded to the company; the use of patient data, distrust in Palantir and the issues around Peter Mandelson’s role in the deal.

Reform will spend £17 billion in private healthcare
Reform’s manifesto sets out a programme of redirecting public finances to private healthcare providers continuing a trajectory that successive Conservative Party governments have pursued, but going significantly further.

Deaths due to overwelmed departments
This HSJ article is behind a paywall. It says at least eight cancer patients were harmed and in some cases died because of operational and admin failures in an “overwhelmed” hospital department. An FOI has revealed. A consultant complained about being “overwhelmed with the volume of work we are managing as a team”.