UK AI Exposure · Associate professional occupations
Complementary health associate professionals
Complementary health associate professionals use non-mainstream treatments in support of conventional medical treatments.
- Employees (UK)
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- Median annual pay
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- Exposure score ?
- 1.6/10 Minimal 6.0/10 High strict reading · with tools is 6.0/10 with-tools reading · strict is 1.6/10
- Wage exposure
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Higher exposure than 72% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means
Most of this role's work is still genuinely hard for AI to do. Physical presence, bodily skill, high-context judgment, direct human care - the things that don't translate to text.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
You're not in the firing line today. But the frontier moves. Build enough AI fluency now that you can direct it for the parts of your work that could benefit. People in unexposed roles who understand AI become unusually valuable inside their organisations.
Most of the routine task inventory in this role can already be done by a capable LLM. That doesn't mean the role disappears - it means the shape changes, and one person can credibly do the work of several.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
Stop doing anything an LLM can do. Your edge is judgment, relationships, taste, and the parts of the work that require you to be in the room. The operators who notice this first and redesign their workflow around it will be paid for those things; the ones who cling to the old task list will compete against AI at AI's prices.
Where a project with Alex usually starts for this role
These are the highest-importance tasks a language model can already handle directly today. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around these, so they stop eating your team's time.
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Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.
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Counsel women regarding the nutritional requirements of pregnancy.
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Provide patients with contraceptive and family planning information.
These are the highest-importance tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around these — usually the difference between an LLM that can technically do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
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Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
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Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
Every role has three or four wedges like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days. Talk to Alex about a project →
The full task breakdown
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can already do unaided versus what still needs a human. Importance is O*NET's 1–5 rating of how central each task is to the role.
Tasks via O*NET "Midwives" (29-9099.01).
What AI can already do
6 of 36 tasks · unaided
Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.
Counsel women regarding the nutritional requirements of pregnancy.
Provide patients with contraceptive and family planning information.
Inform patients of how to prepare and supply birth sites.
Complete birth certificates.
Recommend the use of vitamin and mineral supplements to enhance the health of patients and children.
Where humans still hold the line
30 of 36 tasks
Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.
Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.
Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions.
Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.
Suture perineal lacerations.
Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals.
Test patients' hemoglobin, hematocrit, and blood glucose levels.
Provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods.
Refer patients to specialists for procedures such as ultrasounds or biophysical profiles.
Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.
Assess birthing environments to ensure cleanliness, safety, and the availability of appropriate supplies.
Incorporate research findings into practice as appropriate.
Estimate patients' due dates and re-evaluate as necessary based on examination results.
Provide comfort and relaxation measures for mothers in labor through interventions such as massage, breathing techniques, hydrotherapy, or music.
Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, or breastfeeding.
Collect specimens for use in laboratory tests.
Respond to breech birth presentations by applying methods such as exercises or external version.
Perform annual gynecologic exams, including pap smears and breast exams.
Develop, implement, or evaluate individualized plans for midwifery care.
Provide information about community health and social resources.
Compile and evaluate clinical practice statistics.
Treat patients' symptoms with alternative health care methods such as herbs or hydrotherapy.
Collaborate in research studies.
Tasks via O*NET "Midwives" (29-9099.01).
What AI can already do
22 of 36 tasks · with tools
Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.
Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.
Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions.
Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals.
Counsel women regarding the nutritional requirements of pregnancy.
Provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods.
Refer patients to specialists for procedures such as ultrasounds or biophysical profiles.
Incorporate research findings into practice as appropriate.
Estimate patients' due dates and re-evaluate as necessary based on examination results.
Provide patients with contraceptive and family planning information.
Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, or breastfeeding.
Inform patients of how to prepare and supply birth sites.
Complete birth certificates.
Recommend the use of vitamin and mineral supplements to enhance the health of patients and children.
Provide information about community health and social resources.
Compile and evaluate clinical practice statistics.
Treat patients' symptoms with alternative health care methods such as herbs or hydrotherapy.
Collaborate in research studies.
Where humans still hold the line
14 of 36 tasks
Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.
Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.
Suture perineal lacerations.
Test patients' hemoglobin, hematocrit, and blood glucose levels.
Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.
Assess birthing environments to ensure cleanliness, safety, and the availability of appropriate supplies.
Provide comfort and relaxation measures for mothers in labor through interventions such as massage, breathing techniques, hydrotherapy, or music.
Collect specimens for use in laboratory tests.
Respond to breech birth presentations by applying methods such as exercises or external version.
Perform annual gynecologic exams, including pap smears and breast exams.
Develop, implement, or evaluate individualized plans for midwifery care.
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Methodology
This role's exposure score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 GPT task labels, aggregated by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 via ISCO-08 (ONS Vol 2 coding index) and US SOC 2010 (BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional. ASHE covers employees only, so self-employed workers are not counted.
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