Scans in shopping centres and AI – can ideas like these help save the NHS?

“That was really quick – straight in, straight out,” says Phil Brown as he leaves a smart glass building in a shopping centre in Barnsley.

He has just had an ultrasound scan at an NHS centre which sits between familiar High Street names. It is easy-to-reach healthcare – as convenient as popping out to the shops.

This is part of the government’s vision for the future…