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Microsoft announced on September 11, 2026, a landmark $3.5 billion strategic agreement with the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). Under the terms of the eight--year contract, Microsoft will deploy a unified AI--powered clinical decision support system across all NHS trusts. The platform leverages Azure AI Health and custom--trained medical large language models to automate patient triaging and diagnostic imaging analysis. This agreement represents one of the largest sovereign healthcare AI deployments to date, aimed at reducing surgical backlogs by an estimated 20% over the next three years.