Health chiefs have announced the biggest rollout of artificial intelligence in the NHS in an attempt to speed up breast cancer diagnosis.

Almost 700,000 women are expected to take part in a trial, with some 30 testing sites across the country being enhanced with AI technology.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who survived kidney cancer in 2021, is launching an NHS-wide breast cancer trial using artificial intelligence to analyse mammograms

Nearly 700,000 women are to be recruited to take part in an NHS artificial intelligence (AI) breast cancer screening trial in England. Five different AI platforms will be tested across 30 sites from April to see if the technology can speed up diagnosis as well as free up radiologists.

According to Breast Cancer Now, about 55,000 women and 400 men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the UK. Women are automatically invited for screening between the age