Amazon Alexa offering NHS health advice

The government has announced a partnership between NHS and Amazon, which will allow people to access healthcare information via their Alexa devices.

From this week, the voice-assisted technology is automatically searching the official NHS website when UK users ask for health-related advice, as opposed to searching through various popular answers.

The government in England said this partnership could reduce demand on the NHS. Privacy campaigners have raised data protection concerns but Amazon say all information will be kept confidential.

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