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Can artificial intelligence save the NHS?

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According to the Office for Budget Responsibility, the NHS budget will need to increase by £88billion over the next 50 years if it is to keep pace with the rising demand for healthcare in the UK. But with the 2017 Budget showcasing a massive leaning towards building up its Brexit reserves and allocating a mere £100 million for 100 onsite GP treatment centres in A&Es across England, the NHS is justifiably bracing itself for a painful future. With £20billion worth of cuts scheduled by 2020, combined with fierce warnings that the UK's health services are on the edge of an unprecedented crisis, the urgent call for solutions to be brought to the healthcare table has incontrovertibly intensified. With deep cuts looming, it's time to properly consider how Artificial Intelligence can answer this call and shed light on how its technologies could provide the healthcare industry with some much-needed respite and real solutions to meet the ever spiralling rise in demand for healthcare. The issue of voluminous data that draws relentlessly on healthcare professionals' resources is something that could benefit significantly from the implementation of an AI-based system.