A&E demand forecasting tool
Benefits
The tool helps predict when A&E departments will be busiest, enabling smarter planning for shifts and bed space, reducing last-minute pressure, spotting potential bottlenecks, and ultimately resulting in shorter waiting times for patients. Hospital managers have praised its impact in supporting better decisions about staffing and capacity, allowing patients to move through the system more efficiently.
Details
- Tool name
- A&E demand forecasting tool
- Organisation
- NHS
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Machine Learning, supervised
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Machine Learning supervised
- Usecase
- Predictive Analytics
- Origin
- gov.uk
- Owning team
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Date added
- Scrape date
- 10/04/2026
- Source note
- The tool is currently available to all NHS trusts in England, with 170 active users across 50 organisations each month. It is available through the NHS Federated Data Platform. [Source]