By Hillary Remy
Publication Date: 2026-06-08 17:33:00
Wall Street has spent two years asking technology companies to stop talking about what AI will do and start showing what it has already done. The data, when it finally arrives, tends to matter more than any product launch or analyst note.
On June 7, Microsoft produced a number that is hard to dismiss.
NHS England, which runs one of the world’s largest healthcare systems, announced it is deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff, and the productivity trial that justified the decision was not a small internal experiment.
What NHS England announced and what the trial data showed
NHS England confirmed on June 7 that it will roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff following the largest AI trial of its kind globally in healthcare, which covered more than 30,000 workers across 90 NHS organizations, according to Microsoft UK.
The trial found that AI-powered administrative support saved an average of 43…