Pritesh Mistry
@mustbemistry.bsky.social
A curious mind and a dose of skepticism |
digital technologies & innovation @ The King's Fund I Innovation Catalyst | #healthcare #healthtech blogger (views own)
digital technologies & innovation @ The King's Fund I Innovation Catalyst | #healthcare #healthtech blogger (views own)
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Pritesh Mistry
@mustbemistry.bsky.social
· Jul 17
Quagmire of indecision or catalyst for change?
The NHS 10 year plan was published without a delivery chapter. There's no absence of good ideas but the implementation has long been a challenge. Can we create an opportunity to do things differently?
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New blog: Shock & horror the NHS 10yr plan has no delivery chapter!
But national delivery hasn’t been the success we’d want or expect.
Can we take this quagmire of indecision & make an opportunity for change to happen locally with staff, people & communities?
priteshmistry.ghost.io/quagmire-or-...
But national delivery hasn’t been the success we’d want or expect.
Can we take this quagmire of indecision & make an opportunity for change to happen locally with staff, people & communities?
priteshmistry.ghost.io/quagmire-or-...
Some thoughts on this article on use of AI in GP practices to answer calls.
- Qualitative not quantitative so don’t know how effective it is
- article only gives voice to those frustrated is anyone happy with it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Qualitative not quantitative so don’t know how effective it is
- article only gives voice to those frustrated is anyone happy with it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kirton Lindsey GP uses Emma AI to answer patients' calls
Officials say the AI receptionist answers calls, cuts queues and speeds up patient care.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Some thoughts on this article on use of AI in GP practices to answer calls.
- Qualitative not quantitative so don’t know how effective it is
- article only gives voice to those frustrated is anyone happy with it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Qualitative not quantitative so don’t know how effective it is
- article only gives voice to those frustrated is anyone happy with it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.
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A necessary step towards making it even is stopping assuming that our adversaries are bumbling fools who step on rakes as soon as they move. They’re not. January 6, Brexit, the judicial coup that stole the US Supreme Court for a generation are not the feats of lucky fools.
January 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
A necessary step towards making it even is stopping assuming that our adversaries are bumbling fools who step on rakes as soon as they move. They’re not. January 6, Brexit, the judicial coup that stole the US Supreme Court for a generation are not the feats of lucky fools.
I suppose an alternative is can AI public perception replace traditional media narrative?
AI as a proxy for public opinion? I’ve not used it so reserving judgement
TBH sceptical, it’s often seen as tick box & so low resourced orgs/staff & ripe for AI misuse
Could potentially drive targeted engagement but incentives are missing & AI doesn’t change this
rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
TBH sceptical, it’s often seen as tick box & so low resourced orgs/staff & ripe for AI misuse
Could potentially drive targeted engagement but incentives are missing & AI doesn’t change this
rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
Research Radar: Synthetic Data Is Redefining Representation
As governments experiment with AI to simulate public opinion, new questions are emerging about who these systems truly represent. This Research Radar examines the Collective Intelligence Project’s Dig...
rebootdemocracy.ai
December 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I suppose an alternative is can AI public perception replace traditional media narrative?
AI as a proxy for public opinion? I’ve not used it so reserving judgement
TBH sceptical, it’s often seen as tick box & so low resourced orgs/staff & ripe for AI misuse
Could potentially drive targeted engagement but incentives are missing & AI doesn’t change this
rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
TBH sceptical, it’s often seen as tick box & so low resourced orgs/staff & ripe for AI misuse
Could potentially drive targeted engagement but incentives are missing & AI doesn’t change this
rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
Research Radar: Synthetic Data Is Redefining Representation
As governments experiment with AI to simulate public opinion, new questions are emerging about who these systems truly represent. This Research Radar examines the Collective Intelligence Project’s Dig...
rebootdemocracy.ai
December 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
AI as a proxy for public opinion? I’ve not used it so reserving judgement
TBH sceptical, it’s often seen as tick box & so low resourced orgs/staff & ripe for AI misuse
Could potentially drive targeted engagement but incentives are missing & AI doesn’t change this
rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
TBH sceptical, it’s often seen as tick box & so low resourced orgs/staff & ripe for AI misuse
Could potentially drive targeted engagement but incentives are missing & AI doesn’t change this
rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
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I see a lot of people celebrating violence against Andrew Tate and Jake Paul and really we should be better than...
Oh who am I kidding get Tommy Robinson in a ring with Oleksandr Usyk.
Oh who am I kidding get Tommy Robinson in a ring with Oleksandr Usyk.
December 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I see a lot of people celebrating violence against Andrew Tate and Jake Paul and really we should be better than...
Oh who am I kidding get Tommy Robinson in a ring with Oleksandr Usyk.
Oh who am I kidding get Tommy Robinson in a ring with Oleksandr Usyk.
If we think we need to make hard choices on public services like the NHS today. This is nothing compared to what the future looks like with net emigration & depopulation.
The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
If we think we need to make hard choices on public services like the NHS today. This is nothing compared to what the future looks like with net emigration & depopulation.
Lots of challenges with infrastructure linked to inability to 1) have ongoing infrastructure projects (which improves cost & timeliness) & 2) making each initiative a much bigger one off project by trying to be faster/bigger/better than others (escalating costs as need substantial reengineering)
All of these skills built up on the project will be scattered to the winds because we have cancelled a chunk of the project and we're not building any more high speed rail.
Engineers working on the HS2 project have slid a 4,600t viaduct section across the M6 without a full carriageway closure, in what contractors say is a UK first that will reduce disruption for drivers
Full story:
Full story:
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Lots of challenges with infrastructure linked to inability to 1) have ongoing infrastructure projects (which improves cost & timeliness) & 2) making each initiative a much bigger one off project by trying to be faster/bigger/better than others (escalating costs as need substantial reengineering)
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
Death rates rise when NHS cuts back on nursing
Using lower-paid workers to plug the gaps left by a failure to hire registered nurses damages safety, new research has shown
www.thetimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
This is such an important question. In care esp where what’s measured (& hence paid for) are tasks. But what’s valued is the care.
What will supersede ‘billing by the hour’ in the private sector and ‘time and task’ commissioning where public services like domiciliary care are concerned?
If AI is coming for junior lawyers’ jobs, why does their pay keep going up? Our latest AI Shift newsletter... www.ft.com/content/1d85...
December 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is such an important question. In care esp where what’s measured (& hence paid for) are tasks. But what’s valued is the care.
Great article on the reality of London not the fantasy peddled by those who have a quaint or online fuelled opinion
The doom and gloom about London is ridiculous and harmful. Team FT is Team London - as.ft.com/r/19d3d36d-e...
Don’t believe the fake gloom about London
[FREE TO READ] The UK capital is subject to more than its fair share of misinformation
as.ft.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Great article on the reality of London not the fantasy peddled by those who have a quaint or online fuelled opinion
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This is powerful - I had similar thoughts in my post last week about the powerful but false nature of the Russia is winning narrative sianushka.substack.com/p/russias-gr...
December 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This is powerful - I had similar thoughts in my post last week about the powerful but false nature of the Russia is winning narrative sianushka.substack.com/p/russias-gr...
So interesting to see the replies to this. Many people having a good experience of GP - this hardly gets talked about.
Yes experience is varied but some areas are doing really great responsive care.
Yes experience is varied but some areas are doing really great responsive care.
I am constantly so impressed with my local GP clinic. It is impossibly efficient. There is no relationship with an individual doctor - I don't want one - but the moment you have a concern about something they sort a call back that day or a walk-in appointment that week. They're just brilliant.
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So interesting to see the replies to this. Many people having a good experience of GP - this hardly gets talked about.
Yes experience is varied but some areas are doing really great responsive care.
Yes experience is varied but some areas are doing really great responsive care.
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I just reject this in so many ways. Racism is not caused by the presence of immigrants; immigrants can and do become british and thats wonderful; white british people are not incapable of accepting immigrants into their country without becoming irrational racists
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I just reject this in so many ways. Racism is not caused by the presence of immigrants; immigrants can and do become british and thats wonderful; white british people are not incapable of accepting immigrants into their country without becoming irrational racists
Here I take a deep dive into the the NHS tech activities & expectations that are set for the next 3yrs - AI to NHS App to digital therapeutics to patient comms.
There’s a lot of tech but not enough on supporting people to prepare for & make the change.
priteshmistry.ghost.io/the-nhs-digi...
There’s a lot of tech but not enough on supporting people to prepare for & make the change.
priteshmistry.ghost.io/the-nhs-digi...
The NHS Digital Shake Up - a deep dive into the next 3 years
The expectations for technology use in the NHS over the next 3 years have been set. Here I take a deep dive into these and look at what is expected to change and how.
priteshmistry.ghost.io
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Here I take a deep dive into the the NHS tech activities & expectations that are set for the next 3yrs - AI to NHS App to digital therapeutics to patient comms.
There’s a lot of tech but not enough on supporting people to prepare for & make the change.
priteshmistry.ghost.io/the-nhs-digi...
There’s a lot of tech but not enough on supporting people to prepare for & make the change.
priteshmistry.ghost.io/the-nhs-digi...
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What are the challenges facing the implementation of AI in health and care services?
In his latest long read, @mustbemistry.bsky.social explores what’s needed to implement AI technologies at scale in health and social care.
https://bit.ly/4o3moYh
In his latest long read, @mustbemistry.bsky.social explores what’s needed to implement AI technologies at scale in health and social care.
https://bit.ly/4o3moYh
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
What are the challenges facing the implementation of AI in health and care services?
In his latest long read, @mustbemistry.bsky.social explores what’s needed to implement AI technologies at scale in health and social care.
https://bit.ly/4o3moYh
In his latest long read, @mustbemistry.bsky.social explores what’s needed to implement AI technologies at scale in health and social care.
https://bit.ly/4o3moYh
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Practical use for ChatGPT;
Get it to generate your bin days from your local government website and then add to your phones calendar.
🤗
Get it to generate your bin days from your local government website and then add to your phones calendar.
🤗
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Practical use for ChatGPT;
Get it to generate your bin days from your local government website and then add to your phones calendar.
🤗
Get it to generate your bin days from your local government website and then add to your phones calendar.
🤗
The past and future leader
AI means leadership & management needs to help to implement these tools.
But an AI enabled workforce, patient & NHS means changing leadership & management itself.
Do we want to be micromanaged by AI or one people with autonomy?
priteshmistry.ghost.io/the-past-and...
AI means leadership & management needs to help to implement these tools.
But an AI enabled workforce, patient & NHS means changing leadership & management itself.
Do we want to be micromanaged by AI or one people with autonomy?
priteshmistry.ghost.io/the-past-and...
The Past and Future Leader
Leadership is changing, there's a need to implement AI in the NHS. The act of doing so will itself change what it means to be a leader in the future.
priteshmistry.ghost.io
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The past and future leader
AI means leadership & management needs to help to implement these tools.
But an AI enabled workforce, patient & NHS means changing leadership & management itself.
Do we want to be micromanaged by AI or one people with autonomy?
priteshmistry.ghost.io/the-past-and...
AI means leadership & management needs to help to implement these tools.
But an AI enabled workforce, patient & NHS means changing leadership & management itself.
Do we want to be micromanaged by AI or one people with autonomy?
priteshmistry.ghost.io/the-past-and...
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She wasn’t talking about immigration. She said it makes her angry to see black and Asian faces on adverts. This should not be difficult for a Conservative minister to condemn. The party has really jumped the shark.
October 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
She wasn’t talking about immigration. She said it makes her angry to see black and Asian faces on adverts. This should not be difficult for a Conservative minister to condemn. The party has really jumped the shark.
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Sunder is a consistent, measured voice of reason and he shows admirable calm in dealing with appalling attacks like this - this is more than “worrying”, it is shocking and outrageous
A very worrying escalation of online harassment.
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X
In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match
x.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sunder is a consistent, measured voice of reason and he shows admirable calm in dealing with appalling attacks like this - this is more than “worrying”, it is shocking and outrageous
Is the NHS at the online tipping point? Looking at the latest data it seems as though online is becoming the norm for GP access. A closer look shows theres been great progress but there’s some groups that are not quite there yet & so there’s more to be done!
priteshmistry.ghost.io/nhs-tech-tip...
priteshmistry.ghost.io/nhs-tech-tip...
Is the NHS at a tech tipping point?
This short article runs through some of the latest data on NHS access and experience. Is the NHS at a tech tipping point with online being the most used way of accessing GP services?
priteshmistry.ghost.io
October 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Is the NHS at the online tipping point? Looking at the latest data it seems as though online is becoming the norm for GP access. A closer look shows theres been great progress but there’s some groups that are not quite there yet & so there’s more to be done!
priteshmistry.ghost.io/nhs-tech-tip...
priteshmistry.ghost.io/nhs-tech-tip...
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The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC.
Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
We've reluctantly removed access to YouTube kids. It's now no longer just the odd thing
October 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC.
Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
Here's our new The King's Fund publication on AI implementation and scaling.
- Exploring how working across organisations is essential to sharing resources & expertise, this enables AI development & scale.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
- Exploring how working across organisations is essential to sharing resources & expertise, this enables AI development & scale.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
Implementation And Scaling Of AI In Health And Social Care | The King's Fund
AI has the potential to transform NHS and social care services, but can providers adopt AI at the pace and scale needed to make a real change?
www.kingsfund.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Here's our new The King's Fund publication on AI implementation and scaling.
- Exploring how working across organisations is essential to sharing resources & expertise, this enables AI development & scale.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
- Exploring how working across organisations is essential to sharing resources & expertise, this enables AI development & scale.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
New announcement of AI growth labs to accelerate innovation & cut processes in a contained environment (sandboxes).
Includes £1 million to support the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to pilot AI-assisted tools for healthcare use.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Includes £1 million to support the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to pilot AI-assisted tools for healthcare use.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
New blueprint for AI regulation could speed up planning approvals, slash NHS waiting times, and drive growth and public trust
A new blueprint for AI regulation is being announced by the Technology Secretary today (Tuesday 21st October) to help drive innovation and growth.
www.gov.uk
October 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
New announcement of AI growth labs to accelerate innovation & cut processes in a contained environment (sandboxes).
Includes £1 million to support the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to pilot AI-assisted tools for healthcare use.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Includes £1 million to support the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to pilot AI-assisted tools for healthcare use.
www.gov.uk/government/n...