{"id":240978,"date":"2025-11-03T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240978\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:13:09","slug":"nhs-expands-use-of-ai-to-stop-quiet-killer-liver-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240978\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS expands use of AI to stop &#8216;quiet killer&#8217; liver disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Katie Denver, a clinical research fellow at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust who is working on the programme, said: &#8220;Liver disease is actually very common. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re very aware of heart disease and cancer. Liver disease never gets the same attention but it&#8217;s very common,&#8221; Ms Denver said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The programme uses blood tests the hospital already has from people who have come in for unrelated issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So far we&#8217;ve written letters to 700 people. From those, hundreds of people have engaged, have been started on treatments. We&#8217;ve had a very positive response,&#8221; Ms Denver said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Denver added that more letters will be sent out to people in the South West in the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Katie Denver, a clinical research fellow at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust who is working on the programme,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-240978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}