Health secretary urges NHS to take “right risks” with AI, but says he “cannot go further” on resident doctors pay

The NHS must be less risk averse in adopting digitalisation, technology, and artificial intelligence, the new health and social care secretary James Murray has said.In his first major speech since replacing Wes Streeting last month.12 Murray also said ministers “cannot go further” in boosting the pay of resident doctors, who are due to go on strike again from Monday 15 June.Speaking at the NHS ConfedExpo conference in Manchester on 11 June, Murray said the NHS “too often” let concern over potential risks overshadow thinking about benefits of new technology.Instead, the NHS needed to “innovate and take the right risks,” he told the conference. “Too often the question is, ’What if it goes wrong?’—and of course that is an entirely legitimate question to ask, especially in health and social care where we are talking about profound consequences,” he said.“We also need to balance that question by giving equal weight to another...