TORTUS AI-scribing tool
Benefits
Halved paperwork time saving clinicians 47 minutes per shift (equivalent to one additional patient per shift). Increased patient capacity by 13.4% per shift. Allowed clinicians to spend nearly 25% more time interacting with patients.
Details
- Tool name
- TORTUS AI-scribing tool
- Organisation
- St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Status
- pilot
- AI method (as recorded)
- Natural Language Processing
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Natural Language Processing
- Usecase
- Health AI
- Origin
- NHS
- Owning team
- Great Ormond Street Hospital
- Date added
- Scrape date
- 20/04/2026
- Source note
- St George's was the only emergency department to take part in this pilot, which was run by Great Ormond Street Hospital and funded by NHS England. The pilot examined how AI note-taking can free up time in the NHS. Dr Ahmed Mahdi (Consultant in Emergency Medicine) and Health Minister Stephen Kinnock were involved in the demonstration of the technology. [Source]