What the research found
A month after the NHS doctor-led National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare published its blueprint, the government and the MHRA accepted all 44 of its recommendations, grouped into ten priority areas overseen by a new programme board. Commitments include MHRA draft guidance on managing changes to AI-enabled devices by December 2026, a consultation on how AI devices are qualified and classified in early 2027, a full implementation roadmap by spring 2027, and three more years of funding for the AI Airlock sandbox, whose next phase focuses on post-market surveillance. The government will also explore staged authorisation, stronger patient engagement and better redress when care falls short.
Lifecycle monitoring is moving from proposal to policy in the UK, so providers deploying AI should expect to show how they watch a tool's performance after go-live, not just that it was approved.