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Reported in the Guardian, “AI being used to help cut A&E waiting times in England this winter” by Hannah Devlin. “

The A&E forecasting tool predicts when demand will be highest, allowing trusts to better plan staffing and bed space. The prediction algorithm is trained on historical data including weather trends, school holidays, and rates of flu and Covid to determine how many people are likely to visit A&E.

A&E is England’s term (Accident & Emergency) for the ER. So the national government brought this in from the top. The company and ‘AI’ is not described in the article, really just a puff piece for the government directors, but it is Faculty AI, a UK company. The tool is ‘available’ to all the NHS trusts, not clear if there’s much usage of it.

What does this ‘demand prediction tool’ predict? More demand during cold snaps and heat waves, on school holidays, and higher demand during peak flu and Covid season. Are these pedestrian predictions worth millions of pounds? Doubtful.

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