Palantir新任英国高级副总裁汤姆·沃森（Tom Watson）指责工党议员克莱夫·刘易斯（Clive Lewis）对该公司发表了“不实言论”，同时重复引用了统计监管机构曾指出需要谨慎解读的英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）绩效数据。沃森曾任工党副领袖，自2024年起担任Palantir顾问，并于上个月全职加入该公司。他目前与Palantir英国及欧洲执行副总裁路易斯·莫斯利（Louis Mosley）共事。
Palantir's newly appointed UK senior vice president Tom Watson has accused Labour MP Clive Lewis of making "incorrect claims" about the company – while repeating NHS performance figures that the statistics regulator has said require careful caveats. Watson, the former deputy leader of the Labour Party, advised Palantir from 2024 before joining it full-time last month. He now works alongside Louis Mosley, the company's executive vice president for the UK and Europe.
在刘易斯本周于工党大会上讨论此事后，The Nerve报道了沃森致刘易斯的信件。沃森对刘易斯关于Palantir在英国医疗、警务和国防领域合同的陈述提出了质疑。刘易斯表示，信中详尽的细节让他感觉像是在被“监视”。汇编这份材料并不需要Palantir的Gotham或Foundry软件：沃森引用了议会发言、书面质询、采访、评论文章以及社交媒体上的内容。
His letter to Lewis was reported by The Nerve after the MP discussed it at the Labour Party conference this week. Watson challenged Lewis's statements about Palantir's UK contracts in healthcare, policing, and defense. Lewis said the level of detail in the letter felt like a message that "we're watching you." Palantir's Gotham or Foundry software would not have been needed to compile the dossier: Watson cited statements made in Parliament, written questions, interviews, opinion pieces, and social media.
沃森还将Palantir描述为英国的重要投资者，并称其软件已协助破获了一个窃取自动取款机资金的团伙，为家庭暴力受害者提供了支持，并提高了英国皇家海军舰艇的可用性。在反驳他所称的虚假信息时，沃森表示，NHS联邦数据平台（FDP）已在142个信托机构投入使用，且“其中137个机构已报告了成效”。这一宽泛的说法与英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS England）宣传的数据相呼应，而统计监管办公室（OSR）随后曾要求该机构在宣传平台所谓成效时应更加谨慎。
Watson also described Palantir as a major UK investor and said its software had helped convict a gang stealing money from ATMs, support victims of domestic abuse, and improve the availability of Royal Navy vessels. In rebutting what he described as misinformation, Watson said the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) was live at 142 trusts and that "137 are already reporting benefits." The broad claim echoes figures promoted by NHS England, which the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) subsequently told to communicate the platform's purported benefits more carefully.
在收到关于NHS England利用数据推广FDP的投诉后，OSR指出，医疗服务部门已于6月6日在其发布的数据中添加了免责声明：“因此，我们无法得出因果关系的结论，因为其他变量尚未得到控制。”NHS England也更新了其方法论，并同意在公开交流中更清晰地标识前后对比数据。
Following complaints about NHS England's use of data to promote the FDP, the OSR noted that the health service had added a caveat to its published figures on June 6: "We cannot therefore draw conclusions about cause and effect as other variables have not been controlled for." NHS England also updated its methodology and agreed to identify before-and-after comparisons more clearly in public communications.
OSR要求获知其进展。沃森的信中并未包含这一限定条件。活动组织方“毛地黄”（Foxglove）获取的数据说明了这一限定条件的重要性。英格兰国家医疗服务体系（NHS England）表示，基于FDP的住院护理协调方案与手术室中额外接受手术的111,589名患者相关。然而，在使用该工具的41家信托机构中，有13家报告称在引入该工具后手术量有所下降。
The OSR asked to be kept informed of its progress. Watson's letter did not include that caveat. Data obtained by campaign group Foxglove illustrated why the qualification matters. NHS England said an Inpatient Care Co-ordination Solution based on the FDP was associated with 111,589 additional patients undergoing procedures in operating theatres. Of the 41 trusts using the tool, however, 13 reported carrying out fewer operations after its introduction.
其他因素——包括人员配置、病例复杂性和床位容量——都可能对上述结果产生双向影响。“毛地黄”还发现，在16家使用相关工具的信托机构中，切尔西和威斯敏斯特医院NHS基金会信托机构占门诊候诊名单减少量的84%。因此，沃森在指责他人散布错误信息时，或许应对他所引用的数据施加同样的严格审查。我们已请求帕兰提尔（Palantir）对此事发表评论。®
Other factors – including staffing, case complexity, and bed capacity – could have affected those results in either direction. Foxglove also found that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust accounted for 84 percent of the reported fall in outpatient waiting lists across the 16 trusts using the relevant tool. Watson may therefore want to apply the same scrutiny to the figures he deploys when accusing others of misinformation. The asked Palantir to comment. ®