The UK is committing £1.6 billion to AI between 2026 and 2030. The NHS 10-Year Health Plan has a single ambition: to become the world's most AI-enabled health system. NHS dentistry delivered 35 million courses of treatment in 2024/25. And yet dentistry is almost entirely absent from the conversation that will determine what is commercially viable in this sector for the next fifteen years.
In this solo episode, Dr. Randeep Singh Gill draws on six months of involvement in the Rising Women Leaders in AI programme, a British Council ISPF initiative connecting UK and Türkiye researchers, to examine what science diplomacy actually looks like in practice and why dental AI needs a credible voice in the rooms where UK health infrastructure is being designed.
Topics covered:
Why the UK's AI infrastructure design window is open now and closing
Why dentistry is not represented in the UKRI and NHS 10-Year Plan
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What science diplomacy means beyond summits and declarations
Why the UK-Türkiye bilateral research corridor matters for dental AI
What late inclusion in infrastructure design costs practices, founders, and investors
Dr. Randeep Singh Gill is a qualified dentist, founder of TechDental and DentaCFO, and a UK Programme Mentor on the Rising Women Leaders in AI programme. He flies to Istanbul on 2 June 2026 for the programme's closing ceremony.
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