Vicki Barker
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765 appearances
133 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 5d ago
Vicki Barker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For more than 41 million Brits with smartphones, the NHS app is their first port of call when making an appointment or ordering a prescription refill.
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Over the next 12 months, some 200,000 users will also get access to a new AI triage tool.
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which will ask a series of questions to direct them to the appropriate services.
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It will be available to all app users by mid-2028.
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An early trial showed it cut the number of patients sitting on hold by some 30 percent.
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The NHS is also rolling out AI transcription tools after a major study found that freeing doctors from writing up their notes allowed them to spend nearly a quarter more of their time with patients.
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For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
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The images that follow these white on black letters show not some super sporting feat, but water flowing into a drinking glass, spraying out of a garden hose into a child's face, hammering home the NHS warning to stay hydrated in the current heat wave.
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Other TikTok videos urge young men to check their testicles, warn about the dangers of tanning beds, explain which blotches and splotches on your skin could be cancerous.
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The NHS taking its evidence-based advice into the influencers' own territory, social media platforms.
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For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
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Saturday should have seen Serena and Venus Williams compete together for the first time since the 2022 U.S.
Open.
It would have been their first Wimbledon doubles appearance in 10 years, but the tournament organizers have announced 44-year-old Serena Williams was not fit enough to play after injuring her knee during her defeat by Australia's Maya Joint on Tuesday.
In a post on Instagram, she said she was heartbroken to have to withdraw from doubles.
Serena and 46-year-old Venus Williams remain one of the greatest doubles teams ever, having won Wimbledon together six times and 14 Grand Slam titles overall.
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
The best advice anyone ever gave me was two words.
You can't.
And you know what my response was?
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