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Artificial Intelligence in healthcare – what does the NHS workforce think? - Critical Future
Digital transformation has been the recent focal point in the discussion surrounding healthcare, and with AI at the forefront, continuously popping up as an example of ways the NHS could achieve its aims stated in the Five Year Forward View. The tech focused Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, announced an investment of £400 million in tech transformation and supported AI as providing "huge opportunities to improve patient outcomes and to make life easier for staff." The Prime Minister herself has even spoken at length about AIs potential improve health provision in the UK. However, AI not only provides opportunities to the NHS, it is also draws our attention to the areas where the NHS needs improving. The House of Lords Select Committee report'AI in the UK: Ready, willing and able?' showed that obtaining applicable data from other organisations remains the most significant barrier to adoption of AI and could force the implantation to stand still whilst other changes are made. This leave us with one question, what does the NHS workforce think?