Health: Endoscopy and Bowel Cancer Debate
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Baroness Neville-Rolfe
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Health: Endoscopy and Bowel Cancer
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Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con)
My noble friend has done much to bring the benefits of the digital revolution to the NHS. Are there digital solutions that might help to prevent bowel cancer and other cancers in the fight against this dreadful disease in the coming months and years?
Lord O'Shaughnessy
My noble friend is quite right to point out the potential of digital, particularly the analytical capability of artificial intelligence to look at samples. That was one reason why the Prime Minister recently pledged to have 50,000 more early cancer diagnoses by 2033—a long-term goal—precisely because the NHS is such a good place to use artificial intelligence to improve care.