AI Hospital Bed Allocation System
Benefits
High-quality, consistent bed allocation decisions; improved patient experience; improved workforce efficiency and staff satisfaction; a reduction in the average number of patient moves per admission (and after-hours moves); reductions in inpatient length of stay; improved problem solving capability within the team.
Details
- Tool name
- AI Hospital Bed Allocation System
- Status
- pilot
- AI method (as recorded)
- supervised, reinforcement, Machine Learning
- AI method (normalised tags)
- supervised reinforcement Machine Learning
- Usecase
- Decision Support
- Origin
- digital.nhs.uk
- Owning team
- NHS AI Lab Skunkworks, Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust
- Date added
- 9 June 2025
- Scrape date
- Source note
- The project used 5 years of historic pseudonymised data from the patient admission system (PAS) and 1-2 years of patient flow data to create a virtual hospital environment. Challenges included data quality issues, complexity of patient needs, and adapting to changes in a real-world setting. [Source]