2025AI Governance
Why NHS AI adoption needs systems thinking, not just solutions
The bottleneck isn't capability. It's the institutional architecture around it.
Deputy Director of AI — NHS England
Making AI work for the health system.
I work at the intersection of policy, delivery, and clinical credibility — translating what AI can actually do into things the NHS can actually use.
Currently
Building the conditions for AI adoption across NHS England. Aligning MHRA, NICE, CQC, and NIHR around a coherent AI governance framework.
Thinking about
- How institutions adopt transformative technology
- Clinical AI governance at scale
- The gap between AI capability and NHS readiness
Recent writing
All essays →2025Policy
Aligning the regulators: lessons from building cross-body AI governance
Getting MHRA, NICE, CQC and NIHR into the same frame requires more than good arguments.
2024Delivery
On the gap between what AI can do and what health systems will use
Technical capability is the easy part. The hard part is organisational readiness.
Open intelligence
NHS AI landscape, mapped.
System maps, market analysis, and policy thinking — publicly available to accelerate good AI adoption across the health system.
Explore the intelligence →14
ALBs tracked
200+
Policy documents
850+
Commitment threads
12
System maps