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GOV-DHSC-011 National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare → National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare: recommendations (10 September 2026) full entry on the MHRA page
GOV-DHSC-013 AI Airlock (MHRA regulatory sandbox for AI-enabled medical devices) → AI Airlock regulatory sandbox: announced 30 October 2023, launched 9 May 2024 full entry on the MHRA page
GOV-DHSC-014 AI Airlock pilot cohort (2024 to 2025) → AI Airlock pilot phase (selection 4 December 2024; ran to April 2025; report 16 October 2025) full entry on the MHRA page
GOV-DHSC-015 AI Airlock Phase 2 cohort (2025 to 2026) → AI Airlock Phase 2 (applications closed by 15 July 2025; cohort 16 October 2025; report 27 July 2026) full entry on the MHRA page
GOV-DHSC-016 AI Airlock Phase 3 (post-market surveillance) → AI Airlock Phase 3: post-market surveillance (launched 6 October 2026) full entry on the MHRA page
GOV-DHSC-017 MHRA Strategy 2030 (AI commitments; Centre for AI and Digital Health) → MHRA Strategy 2030 (14 October 2026): AI commitments full entry on the MHRA page
GOV-DHSC-018 Impact of AI on the regulation of medical products (MHRA AI regulatory strategy, April 2024) → "Impact of AI on the regulation of medical products" (30 April 2024) full entry on the MHRA page
GOV-DHSC-052 MHRA clarification on the regulatory status of ambient voice technologies (July 2026) → Clarification of the regulatory status of ambient voice technologies (29 July 2026) full entry on the MHRA page
GOV-DHSC-058 Call for evidence: Regulation of AI in Healthcare (National Commission) → Call for evidence: "Regulation of AI in Healthcare" (18 December 2025 to 2 February 2026; outcome 11 June 2026) full entry on the MHRA page
GOV-DHSC-063 i.AI Medguard (AI for prescribing; link only) → Medguard (AI for safer prescribing — research) full entry on the Cabinet Office page

Identity

As written in the research. Data as of 28 October 2026 (edition 2.1).

official nameDepartment of Health and Social Care

short labelDHSC

govuk categoryMinisterial department

govuk urlgov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-he

headquarters39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0EU, lat 51.497876, lng -0.133348 (address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care — "Department of Health and Social Care, 39 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0EU"; coordinates: https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/SW1H0EU — "SW1H 0EU", latitude 51.497876, longitude -0.133348, accessed 2026-10-28)

parent (as of 2026-10-28)none (ministerial department). Its AI-relevant public bodies: NHS England (executive non-departmental public body, to be abolished by the Health Bill with functions moved to the Secretary of State), the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (executive agency), the UK Health Security Agency (executive agency), the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (executive NDPB), the Care Quality Commission (executive NDPB), the Health Research Authority (executive NDPB), NHS Business Services Authority and NHS Blood and Transplant (special health authorities), the National Data Guardian.

previous parent / parent changednone. Note: the July 2026 machinery of government changes did not move DHSC. The joint minister Chris McDonald MP (Minister of State for Science, Innovation and Investment) sits in both DHSC and the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade.

blurbThe department that runs health and social care policy in England, sponsors the NHS and its regulators, and funds the NHS's AI diagnostics, data and regulatory sandbox programmes.

website still shows old brandingno for the DHSC page itself. Yes for several linked pages: the AI Exemplars programme page (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-exemplars-programme) still lists "Department for Science, Innovation and Technology" as its publisher; ATRS records for UKHSA, CQC and others still list "DSIT" and "GDS" as publishing bodies; the 10 June 2026 cancer-diagnosis press release lists DSIT as a co-publisher.

Gaps the research left open

23Shown as gaps, never filled in by guesswork. Supplement 1 (the second pass) closed some; they are listed below.

Sites that could not be opened (tool/network limits, not absence of content)
https://www.england.nhs.uk/ , https://transform.england.nhs.uk/ai-lab/ and https://www.nice.org.uk/ were refused by the fetch tool ("PROVENANCE_REQUIRED": a permission request was not answered, so these hosts were never sent). Direct connections from the sandbox to www.england.nhs.uk, transform.england.nhs.uk and www.nice.org.uk were refused by the egress proxy (403). Everything on those sites is therefore unverified at source: the NHS England news page; the NHS AI Lab's own pages and its current status (the AI Lab's "AI Knowledge Repository", "AI Skunkworks" and "National Medical Imaging Platform" are not in this file because no GOV.UK page read describes them); NHS England's 2025 guidance on AI-enabled ambient scribing products (URL recorded from the MHRA press release only: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/guidance-on-the-use-of-ai-enabled-ambient-scribing-products-in-health-and-care-settings/); the NHS Federated Data Platform programme pages and the number of trusts live on it; the clinical safety standards DCB0129 and DCB0160 as applied to AI (published on the NHS England site); the AI and Digital Regulations Service site; NICE's early value assessments of AI technologies (no EVA numbers or technology names could be verified, so none are listed); NICE's evidence standards framework for digital health technologies. — Partly closed (Supplement 1): GOV-DHSC-045 amendments; GOV-DHSC-082. The AI Lab home page (https://transform.england.nhs.uk/ai-lab/) timed out on permission again, and the Skunkworks programme page is blocked by robots rules; current status of each programme is still unconfirmed. — Closed by Supplement 1: "AI Skunkworks" not in file (GOV-DHSC-082, GOV-DHSC-083; People row (Giuseppe Sollazzo)) — Partly closed (Supplement 1): GOV-DHSC-045 and GOV-DHSC-048 amendments (the AI Lab Imaging team's aim of "a broader medical imaging platform"); no page read uses the name "National Medical Imaging Platform" or gives its status — Closed by Supplement 1: "NHS England's 2025 guidance on AI-enabled ambient scribing products" (GOV-DHSC-053 amendments (Version 2, PRN01734_i); GOV-DHSC-078 (AVT Supplier Registry, 16 January 2026). The promised early-2026 risk templates and evaluation approach were not found; no dated 2026 revision of the guidance was found) — Closed by Supplement 1: "the NHS Federated Data Platform programme pages and the number of trusts live on it" (GOV-DHSC-043 amendments (139 trusts and 35 ICBs live, end May 2026; 170 trusts signed up); GOV-DHSC-084 (IQVIA); GOV-DHSC-085 (products and benefits). The promised September 2026 update was not seen (the uptake page still says data updated 12 June 2026)) — Closed by Supplement 1: "the clinical safety standards DCB0129 and DCB0160 as applied to AI" (GOV-DHSC-080 (standards and their use for AI scribes); GOV-DHSC-079 (2026 review and consultation). The digital.nhs.uk DCB0129 specification page returned a site error, so the formal standard text, version and legal basis were not read) — Partly closed (Supplement 1): GOV-DHSC-059 now has three sources; https://www.digitalregulations.innovation.nhs.uk/ timed out on permission again, so its current content and status are unverified
The WebFetch hourly allowance ran out at 12:26 UTC after about 55 fetches and resumed at 13:00 UTC; a second batch of about 45 fetches was then made. WebSearch was used once (to locate the FDP contract notices).
Looked for and not found on pages read
The date on which NHS England will formally cease to exist. The 13 March 2025 statement says "Over the next 2 years"; the Health Bill fact sheets and the abolition impact assessment landing page give no date (the 64-page impact assessment PDF was not opened). The Health Bill's current parliamentary stage after introduction on 14 May 2026 is not shown on the bills.parliament.uk page as read.
A named DHSC/NHS England "Chief Data and Analytics Officer" or "National CIO/Chief Digital Information Officer": the DHSC page lists Rob Thompson as "Chief Digital, Data and Technology Officer" (and the MHRA's July 2026 release gives him the same title at NHS England). No other digital office-holder is named on the DHSC or NHS England GOV.UK pages.
The AI Diagnostic Fund's current list of sites: the October 2023 release names 64 trusts "under Background information" but the list was not extracted; the June 2026 release gives no trust list and no supplier names. The brief's "AI-enabled chest X-ray roll-out figures" verified at: half of England's trusts and over 4 million patients (10 June 2026, single source).
Genomics England: not listed among DHSC's 23 bodies on the GOV.UK index and no AI item found via the GOV.UK search API with the DHSC filter; omitted. Health Data Research UK: appears only as a quoted commentator (Professor Andrew Morris) on the HDRS announcement; its funding status was not checked; omitted. NHS Counter Fraud Authority: no AI item found; omitted. Porton Biopharma, HSSIB, HFEA, HTA: no AI items found.
The government/Wellcome split of the HDRS "up to £600 million" is not stated in the 2025 and January 2026 releases; the 10 Year Capital Plan (July 2026) gives £500 million government and £100 million Wellcome (single source).
The "£3.6 million" AI Airlock figure and the "£1 million" Phase 2 top-up are each on one press release only; the Phase 3 application page confirms funding "until April 2029".
The AI Exemplars programme page gives no money or status for the four DHSC exemplars; the NHS App AI assistant ("My NHS GP") has no delivery date beyond "By 2028, the app will be a full front door".
Contracts: only the FDP contract was opened (Find a Tender 2023/S 000-037776 and Contracts Finder). A keyword search on Contracts Finder returned unfiltered results (the Search/Results URL ignored the keyword), so the "largest three" NHS England/DHSC AI contracts could not be ranked; no DHSC-let AI contract was opened.
NICE EVAs/guidance numbers for AI technologies: none verified (NICE site unreachable; nothing on GOV.UK).
The MHRA "Impact of AI on the regulation of medical products" (April 2024) and "MHRA Data Strategy 2024-2027" landing pages carry no AI commitments in their visible text; the PDFs were not opened.
The Equity in Medical Devices independent review (11 March 2024; 18 recommendations) and its government response were opened, but neither landing page mentions AI, so no record was made.
The 10 Year Health Plan accessible page read (131,245 characters) does not contain the FDP, HealthStore beyond the executive summary, or an NHS England abolition date; those may sit in chapters not rendered on that page.
People: start dates for current ministers and officials are not given on the GOV.UK pages; "from" fields are therefore blank or approximate. Yvette Cooper's appointment date as Health Secretary was not found on any page read (the July 2026 machinery-of-government fact sheet was not re-opened by this researcher).
Inconsistencies noted on primary pages: the AI Airlock collection says the pilot covered four products while the December 2024 release names five (Lenus Health withdrew in February 2025); the NHS.UK Reviews Automoderation record is marked "Retired" with no retirement date; the QCovid record says both "Retired" and "Production/run and maintain"; the Phase 2 cohort page says the phase runs to "March 2026" and "April 2026", while the programme report says it ran to May 2026.
No page tried to direct the researcher; no prompt-injection content was observed.
Branding: several pages still name DSIT (AI Exemplars page; ATRS records naming "DSIT" and "GDS" as publishers; the i.AI site). Recorded as of 28 October 2026 with the Cabinet Office as the current home of public-sector AI adoption, per the lead researcher's context.
Partly closed (Supplement 1): AI in Health and Care Award winners and money — GOV-DHSC-046 amendments (four named technologies; the "86" versus "79" count conflict). No full winners list was found; round-by-round winner lists are not on the pages read
Partly closed (Supplement 1): NICE's own AI use and position statement on AI in evidence generation — GOV-DHSC-076 (ECD12, 14 November 2024); GOV-DHSC-077 (ECD11; publication date not shown on the chapters read; the ECD11 PDF returned a site error). No named internal NICE AI tool beyond the two ATRS records already in the master was found
Partly closed (Supplement 1): Robots and permission blocks (method note) — Blocked by robots rules: transform.england.nhs.uk Skunkworks programme page; www.england.nhs.uk 2026/06 and 2026/07 news items, FDP "how does it work" page, NHS South East AI report PDF. Permission not answered in time: transform.england.nhs.uk/ai-lab/, www.digitalregulations.innovation.nhs.uk, NICE chapter pages built from known URLs. Site errors: several www.nice.org.uk document pages and digital.nhs.uk DCB0129 page. Each URL tried no more than twice. No page tried to direct the researcher.

Closed by Supplement 1 (7)

"AI Skunkworks" not in file — GOV-DHSC-082, GOV-DHSC-083; People row (Giuseppe Sollazzo)
AI Deployment Platform (in lead's list; only a contract row in Part 2) — GOV-DHSC-081 (design, networks, processor, AI products); dates of the pilot not shown
"NHS England's 2025 guidance on AI-enabled ambient scribing products" — GOV-DHSC-053 amendments (Version 2, PRN01734_i); GOV-DHSC-078 (AVT Supplier Registry, 16 January 2026). The promised early-2026 risk templates and evaluation approach were not found; no dated 2026 revision of the guidance was found
"the NHS Federated Data Platform programme pages and the number of trusts live on it" — GOV-DHSC-043 amendments (139 trusts and 35 ICBs live, end May 2026; 170 trusts signed up); GOV-DHSC-084 (IQVIA); GOV-DHSC-085 (products and benefits). The promised September 2026 update was not seen (the uptake page still says data updated 12 June 2026)
"the clinical safety standards DCB0129 and DCB0160 as applied to AI" — GOV-DHSC-080 (standards and their use for AI scribes); GOV-DHSC-079 (2026 review and consultation). The digital.nhs.uk DCB0129 specification page returned a site error, so the formal standard text, version and legal basis were not read
"NICE's early value assessments of AI technologies (no EVA numbers or technology names could be verified)" — GOV-DHSC-069 (skin lesions, DERM), 070 (radiotherapy contouring), 071 (lung nodules CT), 072 (chest X-ray in primary care referrals), 073 (fractures), 074 (vertebral fractures), 075 (echocardiography, in development). Still open: AI-derived software for stroke, AI for mammography or breast screening, digital front door technologies for NHS Talking Therapies — no NICE page for these was returned within the search limit. HTG760 (a guidance number shown in search results) returned site errors on three URLs, so its subject is unknown. HTE12's publication date is not shown on the pages read
MHRA, UKHSA, DHSC CDDaT and FDP buyer "coordinates not fetched" — S1b GOV-DHSC-003, 005, 041, 044; S1a regulators MEMBER B3 (MHRA Identity)

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