The plan to save the NHS
EditorialThe Economist
By the end of 2024, the Our Future Health research study will be the largest of its kind in the world, says The Economist. The plan is to recruit five million people and get them “weighed, measured, quizzed, genotyped and phenotyped”, and then “put the data to work to see who gets sick, with what and when, and why,” with a simple aim: to “save them – and the NHS”. As John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford