Law Pod UK latest episode: AI in healthcare
21 September 2026
On the 10th of September, the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare published its blueprint for regulating AI in the health service. It runs to 119 pages and 44 recommendations. This follows the equally hefty Jurisdiction Task Force legal statement on liability for AI harms, which I discussed with Jacob Turner and Michael Workman in episode 236 of Law Pod UK.
In this episode, to pick out what matters for lawyers, I’m joined by Robert Keller KC and Marcus Coates-Walker of One Crown Office Row. We discuss, amongst other things, the difficulty with making contractual liability the answer to harms caused by AI, which doesn’t quite work in our jurisdiction, where most healthcare is provided through the NHS, where there isn’t a contract. So the contractual provisions will help work out as between defendants who is most to blame and who is at fault.
But it doesn’t necessarily resolve the issue of whether a claimant has a claim in the first place, because often there won’t be a contract. The contract might be an answer conceivably in a private healthcare situation, but it’s always gonna be much less helpful in an NHS paradigm, which is the, the, the natural paradigm in this jurisdiction.
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