Technology to help speed up diagnoses of cancer, fund gene therapies and develop artificial intelligence has been given a £133 million funding boost as part of a government pledge to extend life by five years.

Some £50 million from The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will go to NHS diagnostic services to help bring about faster, more accurate diagnosis.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is pledging a further £83 million, of which £14 million will go to bioscience projects and technologies across the UK that could treat osteoarthritis and develop new vaccines.

The remaining £69.5 million of the total investment will help fund four British projects across the UK.

Adult social care will receive £7.5 million to use research to improve care and enable more people to be helped in the comfort of their own home.

Money will also go towards the Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator, which is exploring new technologies targeting genetic mutations that could help treat diseases including cancer, Huntington's, Parkinson's and arthritis.