London hospitals to use AI to address poor A&E waiting times and diagnose cancer

The NHS is trialling the use of AI to try and improve the service it offers. Under a new partnership between University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and the Alan Turing Institute, doctors will be replaced by AI in some instances, in an attempt to build efficiency.

AI could be responsible for diagnosing cancer on CT scans and deciding which A&E patients get prioritised, among other things, at one of the UK’s largest hospitals.

Of course caution is needed, especially to avoid a repeat of the Royal Free Hospital where the personal data of over 1.6million patients was shared with AI developer DeepMind.

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