What are the strategic views and priorities for AI in healthcare?
One of the main three shifts in The 10 Year Plan, analogue to digital, sets out a vision for a digitally enabled NHS. The 10 Year Plan suggests that ‘All hospitals will be fully AI-enabled within the lifetime of this Plan.’ (p10) The plan makes many recommendations for using AI in healthcare settings to reduce time, so healthcare workers can spend more time with their patients. The plan looks to streamline AI regulation and support the NHS workforce with training and education concerning AI.
Page 49 of the Knowledge for Healthcare framework (2021-2026) makes reference to AI technologies. The framework suggests that ‘Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and robotics are reshaping the ways teams create, discover, use and share information.’ The framework also notes that ‘We expect the emergence of new roles and responsibilities for knowledge and library service staff working alongside clinical teams and health informaticians. We anticipate the use of new learning approaches including immersive technologies.’
See also:
AI knowledge repository. NHS England.
AI Playbook. GOV.UK.
AI in healthcare: navigating the noise. NHS Confederation. 2024
A Framework for the safe, efficient and effective implementation, use and maintenance of AI in health and care in London. One London.
Artificial intelligence. The Knowledge Network. NHS Education for Scotland.