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The AI pilot at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust automates discharge documents, reducing delays and enabling doctors to focus more on patient care, officials said.
- Officials announced the NHS is piloting AI technology to help free up hospital beds occupied by patients fit to be sent home, aiming to reduce discharge delays.
- Hosted on the NHS Federated Data Platform, the AI tool aims to alleviate paperwork delays, as the manual discharge process can leave patients waiting hours, officials said.
- The platform uses AI to complete discharge documents, potentially saving hours of delays, and extracts diagnoses and test results from medical records to draft discharge summaries for staff.
- Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the AI tool will let doctors spend less time on paperwork and more on patient care, freeing beds faster.
- Government plans to expand AI technology to all 12,000 probation officers later this year, officials said, after announcing its use to halve note-organising time.
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