Ali Parsa

Babylon’s Ali Parsa on his Covid-19 app, Matt Hancock and saving the NHS

How best to describe Dr Ali Parsa? I suppose you could call him Matt Hancock’s GP, in that he is CEO of the digital healthcare firm Babylon, which the secretary of state for health personally uses and describes as “revolutionary”. You could also call him extremely well connected with the government, given he employed Dominic Cummings – now the prime minister’s adviser – as a consultant at Babylon until July 2018. You could call his company “controversial” – as in “the controversial AI health tech firm championed by Matt Hancock”, particularly as it stands to profit from a £250 million government fund to boost the use of AI in the NHS announced last October. Let’s see how the NHS consultant and writer Rachel Clarke has…Read the full article on The Times