NHS AI procurement should require ethnicity performance data, say calls for race equity focus
On 14 September 2026, two professional pieces urged equity in NHS AI development. One would make performance data by ethnic group a condition of AI procurement.
Who is affected and how
- health IT
- Procurement documents must ask suppliers for performance data broken down by ethnic group.
- health policy
- An equity requirement can become a condition of procurement.
Sources
- NHS AI procurement should require ethnicity performance dataresultsense · Sep 14, 2026
- Observatory urges race equity to be central to future of AI in NHShome | digital health · Sep 14, 2026
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