Health Education England outlines training plans for “digital first” NHS

Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Institute in California was commissioned by former health secretary for Jeremy Hunt to explore how NHS staff can make the most of technology to improve services. Topol’s report concluded that doctors needed training in genomics, artificial intelligence (AI), and other digital healthcare technologies, with care increasingly being supported by AI and robotics and dependent on data from patient-worn sensors and whole genome sequencing.2 3