08/31/2026
What happens to healthcare when a century of change arrives in five years? Richard Mitchell, CEO of University Hospitals of Leicester, one of the largest trusts in the NHS, gave our CEO Mihir Shukla a candid answer.
Part of it: agentic AI. Richard puts the return on his work with it so far at roughly 3:1.
One proof point: recruitment and onboarding. The trust's process used to run almost entirely on paper. Automation Anywhere bots now handle it, and Richard says both time-to-join and new-starter satisfaction have improved sharply.
He's balancing that against two other priorities that rarely move at the same pace: patient care and staying inside an NHS budget set by taxation.
Watch the full conversation below.