Write to letters@thetimes.co.ukSir, The increasing noise from the government, and from those such as Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague of Richmond, about allowing access to NHS data for AI purposes is welcome (reports, Jan 13). However, removing the barriers to access to these data will not be easy. I have worked at the coalface of NHS data analysis for 30 years, and the greatest headache faced by investigators and innovators has always been data access. This cultural resistance is the biggest limiting factor to the deployment of these assets to achieve public health benefits and economic growth. Over these years I have witnessed an in-built suspicion that somehow investigators and innovators want to access NHS

Source: The Times January 14, 2025 04:35 UTC