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My Health Focus

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My Health Focus provides a wide range of health educational information through podcasts and articles, interviewing both patients, carers, healthcare professionals and charities. My Health Focus provides information to allow you to make an informed decision on your health choices, along with offering a pathway to take part in future health research such as clinical trials.

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  • AI in Healthcare: Who's Responsible?

    AI in Healthcare: Who's Responsible?
    2026/09/10
    On the day the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare published its landmark report, Gabriela Commatteo, AI Regulation Policy Lead for the MHRA, joined Catriona Williams from My Health Focus to explain what it all means for patients, prescribers, and the healthcare system.Key takeaways:1. AI in healthcare refers to technologies that analyse information, identify patterns, and support clinical decision-making, not replace doctors or nurses.2. AI is already in use across parts of the NHS, from ambient voice technology recording GP consultations to stroke imaging tools and one of the world's largest breast cancer screening trials involving 700,000 women.3. More than 12,000 people contributed to the National Commission's research, and the message was clear: patients want AI in their care, but support is conditional on safety, transparency, and clear accountability.4. The Commission recommends evolving the regulatory framework to reflect AI's unique characteristics, including ongoing monitoring, proportionate risk-based requirements, and clearer controls around updates after deployment.5. If something goes wrong, responsibility depends on the facts of each case, but manufacturers, healthcare providers, prescribers, and regulators all have distinct roles, and the system needs greater clarity on who is accountable for what.Gabriela Commatteo leads AI regulation policy and projects at the MHRA and was closely involved in the National Commission process. Subscribe to My Health Focus for expert interviews that answer the questions patients and professionals are actually asking.02:45"AI in healthcare refers to technologies that analyse information, identify patterns, make predictions or recommendations, and in the context of healthcare that means using technology to help support health and care delivery."04:30"Some GPs are using ambient voice technology to record consultations and produce draft notes, which frees up clinicians to focus more fully on patients rather than taking notes during the appointment, bringing back that human aspect to the clinician-patient relationship."05:20"The NHS has launched one of the world's largest trials of AI in breast cancer screening, involving around 700,000 women, to understand whether AI can help identify signs of cancer and support radiologists in reviewing scans more efficiently."08:15"More than 12,000 people gave their views, including through public polling, a call for evidence, sector roundtables, and patient and public engagement through partner organisations, and engagement especially included seldom heard groups and underserved, underrepresented groups."10:40"Unlike many traditional medical devices, because it can be updated more often and may perform differently across services, patient groups, and clinical settings, the Commission recommends putting more emphasis on ongoing monitoring and clear controls around updates rather than relying only on a single approval point before a product reaches the market."14:50"The key message is that patients actually want AI, they want to see AI technologies used in their healthcare, they recognise their benefits, but that support is not automatic, it's conditional. They want to know that it is safe, how it is going to be used, they want meaningful human oversight, and they want to understand what happens if something doesn't go as planned and where the responsibility lies." not anti-AI, but they have non-negotiable expectations about transparency and accountability.17:20"There is no simple answer to that question because questions about liability depend on the facts of a specific incident, but what I would like to stress is one clear message from the Commission, which is that the system needs greater clarity about who is responsible for what."My Health Focus is not a medical service. The information provided is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.JOIN THE MY HEALTH FOCUS COMMUNITY AND SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Inside the MHRA

    Inside the MHRA
    2026/09/03
    Welcome to a new series inside My Health Focus: conversations with the MHRA, the body that decides which medicines and vaccines are safe for the UK.In this first episode, Catriona Williams talks to Lawrence Tallon, Chief Executive of the MHRA. Lawrence opens up about his mother's cancer diagnosis when he was a teenager, and how a clinical trial at Addenbrooke's gave her 12 more years than doctors expected. We also cover the new weight-loss pill and why the UK approved it first, what really happened to clinical trial approval times after Brexit, and why women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are still underrepresented in clinical trials.This is the first of several conversations with the MHRA team. Follow the show for the rest of the series.

    Timings:


    • 00:00 — Intro
    • 00:58 — Welcome, and what the MHRA actually does
    • 02:33 — Balancing patient safety against innovation and access
    • 05:46 — How the MHRA's medical and scientific assessors work with pharma and biotech
    • 08:07 — The new weight-loss pill: why the UK approved it first
    • 12:00 — Brexit's impact on approval speed and the UK's standing globally
    • 12:34 — Covid, budget cuts, and how the MHRA fell behind, then caught up
    • 15:10 — Lawrence's mother's cancer diagnosis and the clinical trial that gave her 12 more years
    • 16:55 — Why patients struggle to find and stay in the right clinical trials
    • 20:47 — Bringing patients into the research process, not just researching on them
    • 21:08 — How the MHRA can use approval as a lever to demand diversity in trials
    • 22:04 — The gender gap in clinical trial participation
    • 23:25 — Ethnicity, Covid vaccine hesitancy, and representative research
    • 25:29 — Checking for diverse trial populations before granting a licence
    • 27:22 — Does industry see this as a barrier to getting drugs to market?
    • 29:03 — Closing thoughts and the road ahead
    • 29:50 — The football referee analogy: what the MHRA is really there to do


    My Health Focus is not a medical service. The information provided is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.


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  • Dr Alice Hoyt: Why cure is the wrong word in food allergy care

    Dr Alice Hoyt: Why cure is the wrong word in food allergy care
    2026/08/26

    Dr Alice Hoyt is a board-certified allergist and author of Navigating Food Allergies: A Parent's Guide to Care, Coverage and Confidence. In this episode, she explains why the word cure has no place in allergy vocabulary, what the evidence says about allergic reactions on planes, and how parents can transition food allergy responsibility to the child who has to live with it.


    Five key takeaways:

    1. Precautionary labelling on food packaging is not regulated, so families must assess risk case by case with their allergist.

    2. The science does not support airborne peanut reactions on planes, but the psychological response to proximity to an allergen is real and valid.

    3. Oral immunotherapy teaches the body to tolerate an allergen by introducing very small, controlled amounts over time, but tolerance must be maintained through regular exposure.

    4. Early introduction of allergens, starting as early as four months, prevents allergies from developing, it does not test whether an allergy already exists.

    5. Transitioning allergy management tasks to children should start early, with age-appropriate responsibilities building over time so they are independent by adulthood.


    Dr Alice Hoyt is a board-certified allergist and the author of Navigating Food Allergies: A Parent's Guide to Care, Coverage and Confidence. She helps families make evidence-based decisions about food allergy diagnosis, management and treatment.


    For more expert interviews on allergies, chronic conditions and evidence-based health information, subscribe to My Health Focus on YouTube, follow the podcast or sing up to out weekly newsletter on: https://myhealthfocus.com/


    1. [03:45] Precautionary labelling is not regulated. There is no standardised definition of what may contain means, so families must assess risk with their allergist case by case.

    2. [06:30] The science does not support that someone three rows back eating peanut will cause anaphylaxis. Peanut is heavy, it floats down to the tray table, it does not become aerosolised unless in a lab.

    3. [08:15] I can see the look on my husband's face when he sits next to someone eating something that could kill him with one bite. He is a physician, he is evidence-based, but that response is real.

    4. [12:00] One part of the book that stands out is the roadmap for transitioning responsibilities of managing a food allergy over to your child, starting young with age-appropriate tasks.

    5. [17:20] Oral immunotherapy takes very small amounts of allergen, like five milligrams of peanut when one peanut has 300 milligrams, and teaches the body to tolerate it over time.

    6. [19:45] The sooner we start oral immunotherapy, the more likely the child will freely eat the allergen. I see kids started under two eating PB&J sandwiches by kindergarten.

    7. [21:30] We never want to say something is a cure. A cure means you apply it, the condition goes away, you remove the cure, and it does not come back. With OIT, if you stop, the allergy may return.

    8. [25:00] Early introduction is not testing whether they are allergic. We know at four months it is highly unlikely they are allergic, so we feed the food to grow tolerance and prevent the allergy.


    9. [28:10] The allergen that really makes allergists uncomfortable is cashew. We are finding more and more kids with cashew allergies, and very small amounts can cause robust reactions.

    10. [30:45] The sensationalisation of food allergy, the fear-mongering, the over-promising and under-delivering, those are the things on social media that really bother me.


    My Health Focus is not a medical service. The information provided is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.


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