Rising Faster than the Sea Levels

This project brought together 136 young people from Australia, the Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, Europe and the UK, to understand and respond to the mental health impacts of climate change. They developed and delivered the Youth Climate Change Makers Summit in Australia with Eco Mind, a youth organisation, using a model of ‘head’ (a climate literacy workshop), ‘heart’ (processing and learning healthy ways to tend to eco emotions) and ‘hands’ (taking action).

They also evaluated The Resilience Project’s Resilience Circles programme. Through this, young people build a support community, learn skills to benefit and protect their mental health, and take action in a changing climate. The evaluation was recognised by the UK’s Health Security Agency and the World Health Organization, leading to renewed funding from The Children's Investment Fund Foundation to expand the programme in Kenya.

Hear more directly from the young people in the project.

The Compass Project

The Compass Project guides minds and inspires action in climate change education. In 2025, it brought together over 220 students (aged 16-29), educators in England, and 30+ representatives from youth mental health, climate education and climate action in the UK and abroad.

Through group discussions and an online survey, we learned what students and educators are experiencing, identified a shared vision for integrating approaches to youth mental health and climate change education in the UK, and developed practical ways to make that happen. Our findings are published in this report.

Thanks to this project, over 20 educator resources on climate education and mental health now feature on the Mentally Healthy Schools Hub. It has 2.5 million users and prioritises evidence-based resources that reflect educator and student priorities from the research and co-design processes.

We raised the profile of the intersection of climate change education and mental health at a UK government roundtable, and presented Compass at COP30, the United Nations climate conference, in Brazil. Young people and educators were central to the process – from the design and delivery of discussions and workshops, to presenting at international conferences.

Patient Safety Training in Rural Malawi

We partnered with Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS) and the Ministry of Health in Malawi to support the development of an e-learning course on patient safety for rural health workers in Malawi. Funded by Global Health Partnerships (formerly THET), the course aimed to reach hundreds of health workers in Malawi during its pilot phase. The project fostered two-way capacity building.

We shared online materials from our MSc in Health Policy with KUHeS colleagues and suggested ways to adapt the materials to a shorter e-learning course for health workers in Malawi. In turn, KUHeS staff shared with us their e-learning materials on quality of care, allowing us to better understand how to develop training materials for a diverse global healthcare worker audience.

CROPSNet Conference

In September 2025, we hosted the inaugural Collaborative Research for Online Postgraduate Studies Network (CROPSNet) Conference. The one-day conference – Building Understanding and Driving Progress in Online Postgraduate Taught Education – brought together peers who deliver online postgraduate teaching (PGT) programmes.

Attended by over 80 people, the successful event demonstrated the need for fora to discuss PGT education. The conference marked CROPSNet's first anniversary and a successful first year for the network, which now has over 120 members from 24 institutions.

Digital Health Leadership Programme

In September 2025, we welcomed our eight cohort to the Digital Health Leadership Programme, which was commissioned by NHS England through the NHS Digital Academy. More than 60 professional learners from across the NHS in England joined the programme, which has a renewed emphasis on demonstrating the impact of participants’ learning on the digital projects and programmes they lead within their NHS organisations.

The programme kicked off with a two-day residential leadership forum, which brought together the full cohort, faculty, teaching fellows and guest speakers to foster peer connections and to continue to build the strong community of practice for NHS digital leaders in the NHS. Our alumni network has more than 750 members.

Cybersecurity Bootcamps

Last year, we developed a series of highly interactive, seminar-style residential bootcamps to support digital leaders, offering a carefully curated programme of expert panels, Imperial academic keynotes, real-life simulations and practical workshops to enable immediate implementation of their learning into their organisations.

In April 2025, we hosted the first cybersecurity bootcamp in collaboration with IBM. There, we brought together senior NHS leaders and offered them an opportunity to practice and learn: to ask the right questions, to avoid playing catch-up and to prepare for the next wave of threats.

NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme Summer School

In July 2025, we brought together NHS managers, policy leaders and industry partners to explore how data and digital tools can help transform the NHS into a learning health system.

Participants engaged in interactive practical sessions. IQVIA and Optum ran workshops that showed how real-world evidence and integrated neighbourhood models can improve outcomes and deliver value for citizens and systems through comprehensive data-driven decision making. It highlighted a critical shift in the way we see data – no longer a by-product of care but a driver of continuous improvement.

Public Involvement Front Door

Our NIHR North West London Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC) leads public involvement for SafetyNet, the network of NIHR PSRCs.

In March 2025, SafetyNet launched the Public Involvement Front Door, a digital resource which combines values-based approaches with practical tips and resources to empower researchers to involve public members in their work.

Since then, the site has been visited over 6,000 times and received positive feedback. In this video, three members of the public – Bryan, Martin, and Maria – discuss why it's important to involve groups who may be vulnerable to harm and exploitation in research. They also advise how to make involvement opportunities safer and more supportive.

Treating Severe Acute Malnutrition

Professor Kath Maitland from our Centre of African Care and Engagement presented the results of her GASTROSAM trial (rehydrating children with severe acute malnutrition) at two international conferences which had an online attendance of over 7,000 delegates from 59 countries.

As a result of her research, the World Health Organization has established two committees to review the new evidence on intravenous and oral rehydration, and to update their guidelines, which are over 26 years old. These will affect hundreds of thousands of children in Africa alone.

Treating and Preventing Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects about one per cent of children born in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Without early diagnosis and treatment, between 50 per cent and 90 per cent of those affected die before the age of five. Yet, current treatment guidelines in the region are largely informed by studies from high-income countries, which may not fully reflect the needs and circumstances of African health systems.

Professor Kath Maitland's H-PRIME trial is addressing this gap by conducting the largest therapeutic randomised controlled trial ever conducted in children with sickle cell disease. Launched in January 2024, the trial enrolled 1,800 children with sickle cell disease in Eastern Uganda. Its goal is to generate robust evidence that will inform future sickle cell treatment policies. The trial will run until January 2028.

Digital Tools for Stroke and Surgery Recovery

In 2025, our Helix Centre moved its digital rehabilitation projects from early testing to real-world use, making a real difference for people recovering from stroke and surgery.

They published the findings of the UPBEAT Trial, which evaluated the efficacy of OnTrack Rehab in rehabilitating patients’ arms after a stroke. Most participants stayed the course, found it easy to use, and their arm movement and confidence improve. The trial demonstrated that OnTrack can integrate well into stroke pathways, a stepping stone towards adoption by the NHS.

They also progressed the GAMe (Gross Arm Motion sEnsing) algorithm. This fills a gap in remote rehabilitation by giving instant feedback on a person's movement. The design and development will continue in collaboration with stroke survivors, carers and clinicians, with the aim to trial this technology in 2027.

Other initiatives included Co-Cook, a digital platform that aims to make stroke rehabilitation a shared experience through cooking. And a study testing OnTrack in breast cancer recovery. The results showed that people who used OnTrack quickly returned to their normal activity levels and reported feeling better compared to those who did not use it.

At the same time as carrying out the research, the team took entrepreneurial steps by joining Imperial’s WE Innovate programme, setting up a company, and testing the commercialisation potential with the NHS, private healthcare providers, and potential customers.

New Hamlyn-Hong Kong Joint Lab

In November 2025, a new Hamlyn–MRC Joint Lab – a multiscale medical robotics programme – was established between our Hamlyn Centre and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The five-year, $ 6.3mn collaboration will have its headquarters in the Paterson Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in London. It brings together the complementary strengths of Philip Chiu and Sam Au in Hong Kong with Professor the Lord Ara Darzi and Hamlyn's Professor Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena.

The research spans remote telesurgery, soft robotics, and surgical data science, and will create creating a shared platform for translational innovation across the two institutions.

25 Years of Telesurgery

In June, the Hamlyn Centre hosted their annual symposium on medical robotics. Themed "Back to the Future: Telesurgery in 2025", the symposium commemorated nearly 25 years since the first successful telesurgical operation (surgery that uses remote-controlled robotics). The programme covered a broad spectrum of topics ranging from imaging and visualisation in robotic surgery to smart devices, and from surgical autonomy and AI to clinical adoption.

Professor the Lord Ara Darzi delivered a keynote on the past, present, and future of telesurgery. He was joined by a distinguished panel of fellow keynote speakers whose insights spanned clinical practice, technology innovation, and global education in surgery.

One of the flagship components of the symposium – the industry forum – brought together leading voices from the world of medical technology. This session explored the technological, clinical, and systemic innovations driving the evolution of telesurgery. Experts examined transformative advances – from AI and machine learning to 5G and robotic autonomy – and their direct impact on improving surgical precision, patient outcomes, and accessibility, especially in under-served and remote areas.

Robotic Gastro-Intestinal Endoscope

In 2025, the Hamlyn Centre’s RoboGast project achieved significant milestones in developing a pain-free robotic platform to support next-generation gastro-intestinal endoscopy – a test that uses a long, thin, flexible tube with a small camera inside to check inside the digestive system.

The team created a refined robotic prototype that combines enhanced dexterity with sophisticated software instructions. This allows the endoscopy to be carried out with greater stability and intuition.

The researchers’ feasibility studies showed promising improvements in patient outcomes and workflow efficiency, and reduced operator burden. The team collaborated with clinical partners on ongoing refinements to user requirements and system integration, to ensure it addresses real-world clinical needs. These developments put RoboGast in a strong position for the next stages of development – including clinical evaluation – in 2026. This work reinforces Hamlyn's commitment to delivering more comfortable, intelligent and accessible gastro-intestinal care.

Real World Medical Technologies

In 2025, MedTechONE helped our Hamlyn researchers move their medical technologies from research to the real world in three ways:

• The MedTech Accelerator, funded by the Wellcome Trust, provided project management, regulatory advice, and funding to help translate their innovations more effectively.
• The foundation stream created a network for early career researchers. Its knowledge base for medical device entrepreneurship offered practical guidance on regulation, funding and commercialisation.
• The collaborative stream helped them move their technologies into clinical trials and applied research projects.

The Future State of Health and Healthcare 2035

Our director, Professor the Lord Ara Darzi, was asked by Health Secretary Wes Streeting to look at how healthcare will change over the next 10 years. To do this, we worked with institutional partners the Royal Society, Wellcome and NESTA; industry partners Google, Siemens, GSK and Narayana Health; and consultancies Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte, CF, and RAND Europe. The result was four themed reports on the shift to prevention, better diagnosis, more efficient care, and the impact of data, digital and AI on healthcare.

The final report drew on this work, as well as extensive interviews with a range of leading health technology thinkers such as Eric Topol and Victor Dzau, to identify seven technologies that will reshape the NHS. These were integrated data, an improved NHS App, GLP-1 medication, wearables, genomics, AI and robotics. The focus on these technologies was adopted wholesale by the government's 10 Year Health Plan for England, thereby directly influencing government policy.

SHE HEALS

People experiencing homelessness have shorter life expectancies, poorer physical and mental health, and less access to healthcare than the general population.

For women experiencing homelessness, the average age of death is 43 – nearly half the life expectancy of women in the general population.

Last year, we partnered with the Marylebone Project – the UK’s largest women’s homelessness service – and Central London Healthcare – a federation of 31 general practices – on SHE HEALS, a participatory art project that used art to explore what holistic, trauma-informed healthcare looks like for women experiencing homelessness.

A group of women at the Marylebone Project helped us develop the research questions and methodology and they advised us how to make our work more psychologically informed.

The project led to the SHE HEALS gallery which features 12 photos taken by women experiencing homelessness to represent what healthcare is currently like for them, and seven artworks that visualise what the women think healthcare should look like in the future. The gallery, and a guide to creating psychologically informed environments for research, will be launched publicly in 2026.

The project was a collaboration between academia, healthcare, and the voluntary sector, and this was celebrated at the 2025 Imperial President’s Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement, where the Marylebone Project won the Partner Award for Societal Engagement.

More Accessible Outpatient Appointments

During 2025, our Helix team, worked with the transformation team at Imperial College Healthcare Trust to make booking and attending an outpatient appointment more accessible.

Aligning with the NHS’s accessible information standard, the project engaged patients with a learning disability, sight loss or limited English to understand how to make services more accessible to them.

Through interviews we discovered that waiting rooms are key to improving a patient’s experience and we worked with them to improve how information is shared. Some of the ideas to emerge were stickers with links to information in other languages, better use of digital screens, improved slide design, printed information in folders, and volunteering guidelines.

New ‘success’ screens in the check-in app give patients relevant information once they have checked in. The project recommended other hospital improvements, including water bowls for guide dogs. The work also included refining the tools and templates that enable Trust staff to make innovate and improve their work. We will build on this in 2026.

Working Well: Improving Mental Health in the Workplace

In September 2025, our Centre for Health Policy, in collaboration with Mental Health Innovations (MHI), launched the second in a series of policy reports: Working Well: Improving Mental Health in the Workplace. This one explores the nuanced relationship between work and mental health, drawing on analyses of publicly available data, bespoke survey data and expert interviews.

While mental illness is a significant reason why people are outside of work, the report also found that 40% of Shout survey respondents identified a lack of confidence as the main barrier to finding work (as shown in the image below). Experts interviewed agreed that there are many actions that employers can take in order to support employees to develop the confidence to enter the workplace and thrive in it.

The report benefited from the guidance of a mental health voice group, whose members had lived experience of the impact of mental health on work and vice versa. Our team worked with them to develop a guide for employers to make work more supportive of mental health.

The North West London Networked Data Lab

The North West London Networked Data Lab is a collaboration between IGHI, Imperial College Health Partners and the North West London Integrated Care System. Funded by the Health Foundation, it is one of five labs analysing linked local health data to help decision makers better understand the needs of their communities.

In 2025, we worked with local patients and carers to understand what matters to them about NHS waiting lists. More than 6.2mn people are waiting for planned care in England – with 200,000 waiting for more than a year – so, we know waiting times are a top priority for the public. Guided by the experiences and priorities of our patient and carer advisory group, we looked at who is waiting for elective care, how long they’ve been waiting, and the impact of this.

Our analysis showed:

• 67% of patients waiting for elective care in North West London are seen within 18 weeks. This is better than the national average of 59%, but well below the NHS target of 92%.
• There is variation in waiting times across medical specialties and demographic groups. For example, patients in the most deprived areas had a median wait time of 73 days, compared to 66 days for those in the least deprived areas.

We also heard from patients that long waits can have a significant impact on their physical, mental, and social wellbeing.

Building the Future of UK Health Data

Led by Dr Saira Ghafur, in collaboration with Lord James O'Shaughnessy, we published our third white paper on the topic of UK health data: Building the Future of UK Health Data: A Blueprint for the Health Data Research Service. The paper provides actionable recommendations for how the UK's new Health Data Research Service can harness data to deliver value to both patients and the healthcare system.

Children's Mental Health

Anxiety and depression in children are a growing concern, with mental health services struggling to meet the rising demand for support. Children can be particularly vulnerable to mental health challenges when they move from primary to secondary school, with larger classes, more schoolwork, and new classmates.

In collaboration with Mental Health Innovations (MHI), we ran the Middle Years Project. It looked at what affects the mental health and wellbeing of UK students aged 10 to 13, where students go for support when they are feeling sad or worried, and barriers to seeking support.

We conducted an online survey of 250 students in five schools in England, followed by a series of focus groups to dive deeper into the findings. A young people’s advisory group shaped the questions and focus group activities, ensuring the study was child-friendly and relevant.

The group helped us create an infographic and video of our key findings and recommendations and we shared this with the students, parents, and teachers involved in the project. MHI adopted the recommendations and are now exploring how to improve services for this age group.

Breast Screening

In 2025, we co-designed a campaign to increase the uptake of breast screening in underserved groups in Hounslow, London. Funded by the National Institute of Health Research’s Public Health Research Programme, the project will gather evidence to improve public health and reduce health inequalities in breast cancer.

The team worked with Hounslow Local Authority to design and carry out the research.

The intervention campaign includes resources about breast screening, which are delivered through community champions, other networks from Hounslow Local Authority, and local advertising.

The project will continue into 2026 with training for the community champions, followed by an assessment of the intervention after six months, and a further follow-up six months later. If successful at increasing screening uptake, the team will produce a toolkit, so that other councils and organisations can run this campaign.

Healthy Ageing

In 2025, our Helix Centre expanded its Healthy Ageing work, using technology to help older adults stay healthier for longer and to monitor early signs of frailty.

Having completed the design and feasibility stage, they worked closely with frail, at-risk participants to design a home-based digital monitoring programme. They installed 15+ wearable and home sensors in the homes of 30 participants. This work led to a prototype called the Healthy Habits app.

More than eight in 10 of the participants continued beyond the required six weeks. Almost 90 per cent said the programme improved their health and wellbeing at least a little, and eight in 10 increased their daily steps, reduced their sitting time, or both by at least 10 per cent compared to the start. The team then launched a follow-up feasibility trial with 25 people. This tested how the app affects frailty, activity levels, quality of life, and other health measures.

Dementia Monitoring

In 2025, our Helix Centre continued to support the UK Dementia Research Institute’s Care Research and Technology Centre, with their human-centred design work.

They continued to develop the Minder remote patient-monitoring platform and Minder reports. These provide patient-specific insights from sensors in the home for clinical use. The steering group of people with lived experience completed its first year. It made significant contributions to our work and welcomed new members.

The MinderCare project recruited 100 patients in North West London, and delivered sensor-driven, remote care as an integrated service within the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The team supported its integration into the NHS, and Tori Simpson conducted house visits to evaluate participants’ views of the service. This informed how the team will develop and expand it in the future.

With the InSleep project, they installed Minder in the homes of over 300 people in the Insight46 1946 birth cohort. Their data will be used to explore the use of sleep behaviour as a biomarker for dementia. Together with Newcastle University, they published a related paper and an insight report.

Global State of Patient Safety 2025

We have worked in partnership with the charity Patient Safety Watch to publish reports on the national and global state of patient safety since 2022. In 2025, we published the Global State of Patient Safety 2025 and a data dashboard. It provides insight into the state of patient safety across the world through the analysis of publicly available data and interviews with experts from across the globe.

Highlights from the report include an updated patient safety ranking of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, which ranks Norway first and the UK 21st out of 38 countries (see figure below).

The report also includes four best-practice examples of patient safety systems: Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands and Norway. Building on findings from these case studies, and interviews with patient safety leaders from Morocco, Singapore and Thailand, the report includes a framework of 16 ambitions for national health systems to deliver safer care.

World Health Organization Collaborations

The World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Patient Safety Collaborative (GPSC) was established in 2018 as a joint initiative of the WHO and the UK Government.

We have been academic partners of the GPSC since its inception, supporting the WHO to deliver strategic areas of patient safety leadership, education and training, and research and research capacity development. The GPSC has a global remit but provides country-specific support to Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mongolia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka (the 'GPSC countries').

In 2025, we supported WHO to deliver three webinars – on patient engagement for patient safety, patient safety incident reporting and learning systems, and legislation for quality of care and patient safety – to participants in GPSC countries

We helped develop the WHO's safety culture guidance tool and wrote an academic paper on global priorities for research in patient safety.

The team also supported the development of a WHO Academy course on patient safety with lessons on sources of harm, clinical risk management, patient and family engagement, safe environments, teamwork and communication, and patient safety incident reporting and learning systems.

To commemorate World Patient Safety Day 2025, Dr Mike Durkin coordinated a podcast with leaders from WHO, the UK government, industry and the charity sector to discuss the topic of safer care for every newborn and child.

We also co-lead, with the WHO, the Quality of Care and Patient Safety Education and Training (QPSET) Network, and, in this capacity, created a global mapping of education and training resources on patient safety. This document is available to global members of the QPSET Network.

Touchdose

Touchdose is a tool that helps clinicians calculate the correct dosage of a drug to give to a patient. It was rolled out across West London Children’s Healthcare and an evaluation was published in BMJ Paediatrics Open. It showed that Touchdose significantly reduced the rate of prescribing errors at St Mary’s Hospital from 7.1 per cent to 1.2 per cent. This represents an 83 per cent reduction in the odds of an error occurring.

The tool was developed by Dosium with support from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, the NHS and Imperial College London.

NIHR SafetyNet Symposium

In 2025, the first National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) SafetyNet Symposium was hosted by the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC) and supported by all six PSRCs in England including our own NIHR North West London PSRC.

The event – based around the theme of Tackling Inequities in Patient Safety – delivered inspiring keynotes, thought-provoking research showcases, and a vibrant poster exhibition. It strengthened national collaboration, showcased innovative work, and provided a platform to discuss emerging challenges and future priorities in patient safety.

One of our researchers – Fiona O’Driscoll – and public partner Chris Pavlakis gave a presentation on reducing inequity in hospital access through co-design support.

Other highlights included:

• A keynote by Dr Rosie Benneyworth from the Health Services Safety Investigations Body on Moving away from a ‘who’s to blame’ culture.
• A keynote by Prof Dawn Edge from the University of Manchester on ethnic inequities in patient safety.
• A presentation about the patient safety healthcare inequalities reduction framework by NHS England’s Dr Hester Wain, which outlined practical steps for reducing disparities in care.

The Fleming Initiative and Google

In 2025, the Fleming Initiative partnered with Google to give researchers access to powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to make laboratory science faster, more efficient and more impactful.

Also in 2025, the Fleming Initiative and Google DeepMind called for applications for a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the interface of computer science, AI and AMR. The fellowship was awarded to Dr Nicolas Moser, whose research focuses on using AI to deliver faster, more reliable diagnostics for infectious diseases, thereby helping clinicians to select the right treatment sooner and improving patient outcomes.

Ask Eolas

Runner-up, "Best Innovation in Patient Safety"
NIHR Safety Net Conference, October 2025

AMR is a critical global threat. As part of our work in this field, we are evaluating Ask Eolas – a tool that uses advanced AI to turn hospital treatment guidelines into an easy-to-use, interactive system.

This is how the tool works: a doctor describes a patient’s situation in lay language; Ask Eolas responds with clear, tailored antibiotic recommendations based on the relevant hospital guidelines.

Our evaluation aims to:

• Support responsible antibiotic use.
• Help deliver the UK National AntiMicrobial Resistance Action Plan (2024–2029) by choosing the right antibiotic, at the right dose, for the right length of time.
• Make decisions faster.
• Reduce the time clinicians spend searching through guidelines, so they can make quicker decisions at the bedside.
• Keep patients safe.
• Carefully assess both the benefits and any unexpected risks of using generative AI in everyday clinical practice.

Artificial Intelligence in Mammography Screening (AIMS)

The Artificial Intelligence in Mammography Screening (AIMS) programme is a large-scale evaluation of how AI can be safely and effectively integrated into the NHS's breast cancer screening programme.

Using a national, multi-centre dataset across five screening sites, it has demonstrated that the AI system achieved superior cancer detection rates compared to human readers. The findings were published in Nature Cancer with a companion paper which shows that AI can be effective in arbitration (providing a final opinion when two readers have differing opinions on the scan).

AI was also shown to substantially reduce human reading workload. It provides some of the strongest evidence to date that AI can be safely embedded into population screening rather than evaluated only in isolation.

STARD-AI

Having identified a critical gap in the evaluation of AI diagnostic tools, we collaborated with over 240 stakeholders from academia, clinical medicine, industry, regulation, and journals to develop STARD-AI.

It provides guidance on using AI in healthcare diagnostic testing and builds on the widely used STARD 2015 framework by introducing 18 new or modified items on AI-specific issues. These include dataset construction, model development and evaluation, bias and fairness, and reproducibility.

Published in Nature Medicine in 2025, STARD-AI provides a global reference standard for reporting AI diagnostic accuracy studies and sits alongside other seminal guidelines within the EQUATOR Network.

Its impact is to raise the methodological and reporting bar for clinical AI research, which supports regulators, clinicians, journals, and policymakers to better assess evidence quality and to accelerate the safe, trustworthy adoption of AI in healthcare.

Ambient Voice Technology Trial

In 2025, our PSRC team conducted a small-scale study on the use of AI ‘digital scribes’ in primary care. Digital scribes are AI-powered, voice technologies that listen to doctors’ consultations with patients and generate medical notes in real time.

The team recruited 53 participants from 22 countries who took part in a simulation-based interactive workshop and discussion during the 2025 World Organisation of Family Doctors (WONCA) conference. Although they identified potential benefits – including care that was more focused on patients, and less administrative work for doctors – there were three key safety concerns: accuracy, accountability, and equity.

The team is now planning to pilot the project and run interviews to explore these findings in greater depth. This work addresses current NHS strategic priorities and the growing demand for integrating AI technologies into primary care.