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AI to help slash NHS hospital discharge delays, officials say
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.
- On later this year, the NHS announced it is piloting AI technology to automate patient discharge and free up beds occupied by patients fit to leave.
- Hosted on the NHS Federated Data Platform, the AI tool addresses hours-long discharge delays caused by manual paperwork, 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 summaries.
- Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the AI tool will let doctors spend less time on paperwork and more on patient care, freeing beds faster.
- Later this year, the Government announced plans to expand AI tools at NHS hospitals to help discharge patients faster and free beds.
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