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Taking scrubs to the next level.

It eliminates the guesswork,’ said Suvi Verho, lead scrub nurse at London Independent Hospital told the Daily Mail and cited the technology as a ‘gamechanger’. He said that the technology would ‘superpower’ his operating team into the equivalent of a Formula One pit crew, saying: ‘That’s the idea – that it doesn’t matter if you’ve never been in a pitstop in your life. Read More Stories The surgery comes as the chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt said in his Budget speech that he wants to modernise NHS IT systems and called for health services to embrace AI.

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