Innovators in England are now able to submit their applications for a new AI in Health and Care Award launched by health secretary Matt Hancock to speed up testing, evaluation and adoption of the "most promising" AI technologies for healthcare. The initiative will see £140 million be made available during the next three years, with a call for applications running twice a year. Initially, the award will focus on four areas: screening, diagnosis, clinical decision support and system efficiency. Run by the Accelerated Access Collaborative, NHSX and the National Institute for Health Research, it forms part of the £250m announcement made in August to support the creation of an AI Lab for the health service. "Too many good ideas in the NHS never make it past the pilot stage," Hancock said in a speech at the Parliament & Healthtech conference in London on Tuesday.