Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 13
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Deferred
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Fund research into machine learning for automating general practice clinical administration.
Recommendation
The Government should also fund research into the specific role that machine learning can play in the automation of reporting and coding test results to reduce clinical admin in general practice.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response outlines changes to pension arrangements, including increasing the annual allowance, abolishing the lifetime allowance, and introducing retirement flexibilities, which is entirely unrelated to the recommendation about funding machine learning research for admin reduction.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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Partially accept. The Department partially accepts this recommendation. We are keen to explore the potential opportunities of automating processes in general practice to free up clinical capacity, and will explore opportunities to commission research via existing formal routes. NHS England is already supporting two pilots being led by the Health Innovation Network in London testing the automated coding of bowel screening results and other clinical administrative processes to explore the potential of this technology. Likewise, some Integrated Care Boards are using Transformation Support Funding to pilot other automation tools and improvements to workflows within general practice.
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