UK watchdog calls for new AI regulations in NHS as technology becomes routine

As artificial intelligence quietly takes root in Britain's National Health Service—reading scans, scribing consultations, shaping diagnoses—the country's medicines regulator has acknowledged that the rules governing these systems belong to a different era entirely. The MHRA's 44 recommendations, drawn from the voices of more than 12,000 patients and clinicians, represent a collective reckoning with a technology that does not stand still after it leaves the factory. At stake is not merely regulatory tidiness, but the deeper question of whether citizens can trust the invisible systems increasing