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Department of Health and Social Care: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what purposes their Department has used artificial intelligence in the last year.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
3 Sept 2025
Answer
11 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 1 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what purposes their Department has used artificial intelligence in the last year.

  2. 3 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 11 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Department has developed, as proof-of-concept projects, artificial intelligence (AI) enabled summarisation tools that have been used to analyse and draw out key themes from free text and survey responses, as well as to summarise academic journals and ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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