Vox Pop: 'I don't think AI is a magic bullet'

We need to make data the centre of what we're doing, to be able to achieve the benefits of AI, says Deborah El-Sayed, Director of Digital & Multi-Channel Development at NHS England. And it has to be a collective process - because everyone, whether from academia, a provider organisation or clinician, has a piece of the jigsaw. AI and the NHS might at first glance seem uneasy bedfellows. Are the two an unlikely combination – or a match made in heaven? I think that we've hit a kind of tipping point in healthcare. People are living longer – which is a triumph; our expectations as healthcare consumers are growing and because we're surviving more conditions because we have better healthcare, we've got more complexities and more comorbidities.