Thinking about Healthcare – and my search for a Publisher

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There’s two ways of looking at the recent IT agreement between the UK Government and various US tech companies including Microsoft, Google OpenAI, CoreWeave, who collectively have committed to $31Bn of investment.

1. The first is that of a positive viewpoint, expressed by Prime Minster Starmer as a ‘Generational Step Change’ to the UK, affecting healthcare and education, to name but only two industries.
2. The second, alternative view is that it provides a further catalyst to a dystopean digital age, one which citizens will be increasingly digitalised and that services – including healthcare – will be automated, with our lifestyles being increasingly influenced by AI

You should make your own mind up. Which one is it likely to be? In reality, it’s going to be both, but not necessarily in equal measures. And don’t hold your breath – there’s a skill shortage in tech which will take a while to overcome.

We shouldn’t sniff at a £31Bn investment but let’s put it into context. Every year the NHS cost the taxpayer about £180 Bn. Maybe a shift towards digitalised healthcare and proactive treatment will help pull this figure down, although counterbalanced by the increasing health demands of an aging population, myself included.

I was rather pleased, btw, to be recently identified as a top-ten Thought Leader on Healthcare in 2025.

That aside, I wonder how futuristic my 4^th book ‘AI and the Future of the Public Sector’ will prove to be, which also discusses healthcare?

And also how important and prescient my idea for a 5^th book might prove to be – if only I can find a publisher and, more importantly, can find time to research and write it!

It’s not that I’m twiddling my thumbs. At the moment I’m preoccupied with a couple of books for the grandkids, and even the possibility of publishing one of them, but at least I now seem to have a slight more bold and tech-orientated project for 2026!