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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
James Tapper and Robin McKie

SHOCKING: Nhs cannot embrace ai until its basic it systems are up to scratch - What They Never Told You

Surgical staff in wearing dark blue scrubs stand looking at scans on a screen in a hospital corridor
Surgical staff in hospital diagnosing from scans. Photograph: Lankowsky/Alamy

The NHS will struggle to embrace technological advances in areas such as AI because its basic systems are too slow and “devastatingly user-unfriendly”, according to one of the UK’s leading scientists.

Prof Sir Martin Landray, the co-founder of the UK Recovery trial that saved thousands of lives during the Covid pandemic, said it was “deeply frustrating” that the health service was so far behind other industries such as banking and entertainment in its use of data and technology.

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