Writing

Policy, ward, and ideas

Commentary on the issues that matter and how we can improve them.

AI will not save the NHS. But it might help, if we get the governance right

The political debate about AI in healthcare oscillates between uncritical enthusiasm and reflexive scepticism. Both get it wrong. The real question is governance, and the current framework is neither rigorous enough nor flexible enough.

Policy

A Conservative prevention agenda: what the evidence actually supports

Prevention is the most abused word in health policy. Everyone is for it, almost nobody distinguishes the interventions that work from the ones that merely sound good.

Personal

On being a scientist in politics

Scientific training teaches you to hold your beliefs provisionally and change them when the evidence demands it. Politics largely does not work this way. It should.