{"id":23079,"date":"2026-05-14T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/one-in-seven-in-uk-prefer-consulting-ai-chatbots-to-seeing-doctor-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:37:15","slug":"one-in-seven-in-uk-prefer-consulting-ai-chatbots-to-seeing-doctor-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/one-in-seven-in-uk-prefer-consulting-ai-chatbots-to-seeing-doctor-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"One in seven in UK prefer consulting AI chatbots to seeing doctor, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Doctors say \u2018highly concerning\u2019 poll highlights risk to patients of turning to AI for medical advice<\/p>\n<p>One in seven people are using AI chatbots for health advice instead of seeing their GP, a UK study has found.<\/p>\n<p>The poll of more than 2,000 people found that \u2013 of the 15% turning to chatbots \u2013 one in four had done so because of long NHS waiting lists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/may\/13\/one-in-seven-prefer-ai-chatbots-to-seeing-doctor-uk-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/afbfee4ff0412a020c6abe8ab5b6bd254f59748f\/484_0_6880_5504\/master\/6880.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9ee4e218261333574256d5c03f163ea8\" title=\"One in seven in UK prefer consulting AI chatbots to seeing doctor, study finds\" \/>Exclusive: Doctors say \u2018highly concerning\u2019 poll highlights risk to patients of turning to AI for medical advice<br \/>\nOne in seven people are using AI chatbots for health advice instead of seeing their GP, a UK study has found.<br \/>\nThe poll of more than 2,000 people found that \u2013 of the 15% turning to chatbots \u2013 one in four had done so because of long NHS waiting lists. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Doctors say \u2018highly concerning\u2019 poll highlights risk to patients of turning to AI for medical advice One in seven people are using AI chatbots for health advice instead of seeing their GP, a UK study has found. The poll of more than 2,000 people found that \u2013 of the 15% turning to chatbots \u2013 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/one-in-seven-in-uk-prefer-consulting-ai-chatbots-to-seeing-doctor-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One in seven in UK prefer consulting AI chatbots to seeing doctor, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}