{"id":317517,"date":"2025-08-04T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317517\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:01:10","slug":"health-minister-visits-bristol-gp-surgery-using-ai-for-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317517\/","title":{"rendered":"Health minister visits Bristol GP surgery using AI for notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St George&#8217;s Surgery booked more than 9,000 appointments in June alone, with over half of those taking place on the same day the appointment was made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the 10 Year Health Plan, the government will support providers to rollout technology, potentially freeing up the equivalent capacity of more than 2,000 full-time GPs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andy Carpenter, digital director for Mendip Vale Medical Group, said: &#8220;General practice is seeing more patients than ever before, and the use of AI and digital technology is playing a vital role in helping to meet that demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added they had many safety processes in place to keep patients&#8217; data safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Most patients see that AI is a benefit to their patient care and are willing to have it working,&#8221; Mr Carpenter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think what it does at this moment in time, it allows for GPs to have more face-to-face time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During her visit, Smyth also had the opportunity to see other areas of AI in action, including remote fridge-temperature monitoring to prevent loss of vaccine stock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The use of AI technology is really key for the future, we have to make sure it&#8217;s safe. We need to make sure healthcare is always well regulated. We&#8217;re very actively working with clinicians to make sure we&#8217;re on the right track with that,&#8221; Smyth added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St George&#8217;s Surgery booked more than 9,000 appointments in June alone, with over half of those taking place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-317517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114971337392782482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}