CogX Festival 2021: How the NHS is using AI to predict demand for services

The first wave of the pandemic made it tremendously difficult to predict the demand on health and care services. In response, NHS England and NHS Improvement developed the COVID-19 Early Warning System — a first-of-its-kind toolkit that forecasts vital metrics. Now, it helps to prioritise care for patients on a daily basis. We look at how such a large and complex organisation like the NHS embraced AI so quickly and successfully, and the main reasons why AI adoption can fail.

Laura Stevenson, Senior Manager of Faculty’s Health & Life Sciences team and Harison Carter, National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow at NHS England will discuss – How the NHS is using AI to predict demand for services.