DOCTORS using virtual reality goggles, robots patrolling wards.
It sounds like some sci-fi film.
But these hi-tech innovations aren’t movie props.
In the Israeli hospital visited by The Sun on Sunday they are already revolutionising medical care.
And as waiting lists here hit 7.5million, how long can we afford to wait before turning to AI technology to save our strike-hit NHS?
Health Secretary Steve Barclay is rightly pushing the service to embrace technological advances and last month announced a £21million fund for AI to speed up diagnosis.
Nobody can doubt that Britain needs a healthcare revolution.
Just look at the bone-headed doctors’ union boasting of using the Government’s new 6 per cent pay rise to boost their strike funds.
Their 35 per cent pay demand is not only ludicrous, it is wrecking the NHS.
And while they gloat, patients suffer, operations are cancelled and millions more on waiting lists see their chances of care slipping away.
In the long run, those striking in many industries, including the railways, are speeding their own extinction by forcing desperate employers to embrace AI faster.
Doctors ruining our health service should heed the ancient proverb.
Physician heal thyself – before the robot does it for you.
THE Government faces a race against time to pass its Illegal Migration Bill this week.
But this is a race it has to win.
Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick is quite right. Failure is not an option when it comes to stopping the boats.
After weeks of wrangling with unelected, unaccountable peers in the House of Lords, the Commons now has four days before summer recess to pass the Bill into law.
Theresa May will no doubt be leading the Tory rebels. But it is precisely her Modern Slavery Act which has caused so many problems in this area.
The ex-PM also has something in common with carping Labour opponents.
They have no credible alternative either.
HOW refreshing to learn Prince William loves to whiz about on a trendy e-scooter.
Might we one day see the whole Royal Family zooming down the Mall on the eco-friendly gadgets for his coronation?
Makes a change from the Gold State Coach.
