When the government is acting as market creator, market regulator and also runs the health service that generates the data and the test bed for new AI tools, there is always a risk that economic imperatives overshadow the priorities of healthcare.

The revelation of data leaks from Biobank UK should act as a warning to government and researchers pushing for ever greater access to NHS data.

www.theguardian.com/science/2026... The inability to keep relatively small datasets like Biobank secure should raise alarm bells for the constant push for population wide health data collation in the UK.

concerns rest on Palantir software’s cross-departmental “drag and drop” capabilities if a future UK government changes the law, as Reform has pledged to facilitate “mass deportation”. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When specific groups are not adequately represented in medical research it creates evidence gaps which may persist in the data used to build AI and cause harm in the future.

Thank you to my fantastic team of supervisors! @jredden.bsky.social @linadencik.bsky.social @arne-hz.bsky.social

So pleased for newly titled Dr @isobelrorison.bsky.social who passed her PhD viva with no corrections! 🥳 Isobel’s brilliant thesis on AI & the NHS provides crucial insights that we can all learn from. Watch out for her future publications!! #Jomecresearch @datajusticelab.bsky.social

This type of inequality feeds through into the datasets used to inform service planning, research and AI tools - the implications may be are far reaching, beyond the individual women let down by these guidelines.