The NHS should focus on doing the basics first

Some aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) will clearly come to influence our clinical work, perhaps sooner than many of us anticipate.1 I recently asked a medical student about their learning outcomes for an elective placement and was told that they’d written them with ChatGPT.Although AI has almost infinite potential applications in healthcare, the benefits should be considered against the overall level of digitisation in the NHS. The trust that I currently work in has only recently introduced electronic prescribing. I regularly go days at a time without logging into a work computer—anaesthetic charts are on paper, clinic pre-assessments are printed out, and day case patients have paper kardexes. This is the second trust that I have worked in over the past year that uses paper notes for ward inpatients.Rather than getting carried away about the possibilities of AI, we might be better spending scarce NHS resources on improving and integrating…
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