our reporter hannah karpel has more. how would you feel about opening up to a chat bot? across england. the nhs is using the software to help tackle their growing waiting list for mental health support. one of the companies helping them is limbic, who work with a third of nhs talking therapies in england. we've taken this data with consent from the nhs, trained it to be able to identify with very high accuracy what your primary problems are. we were able to take your goal for therapy and what your primary issues that you want to really focus on during therapy are through this highly empathetic 2a seven always on chat box. but can we trust a! as therapy? the first thing that we need to know is how secure the data is. but we also need to know, of course, that there is patient benefit. you need to know that this is better than doing something else, or better at least than doing nothing rather than having chat bots replace therapists. i think the idea of having them blended together is probably initially a way of reducing the number of sessions that you need. some patients a