Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide details of the event planned by his Department with clinicians and data scientists on artificial intelligence.

An NHS England-led task and finish group are working with the No.10 Downing Street Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Applied Mathematics Team, who are carrying out analysis of collections of prose-based safety reports. On 21 August 2023, a roundtable event was held at Downing Street with clinical experts involving discussions on the use of AI and machine learning in the analysis of maternity ward-based patient safety incident reports, which has successfully produced a model for analysis.

Over the coming months, NHS England will explore whether this model can be applied to other data rich maternity safety reports as a means of delivering new insights on potential safety signals for informing the Perinatal Quality Surveillance Model.