How would you fix the NHS?

There are systems that exist that use algorithms to help ensure that beds are allocated to increase likelihood of patient survival by, for instance, ensuring that patients of a particular consultant can be seen easily.

If a consultant has to tour an entire hospital to see his patients then they all have a lower success outcome, if they are all clustered together then he has more time with all of them and as such they are all more likely to survive.

It's easier to automate things like that. So if you take all those increased survival outcomes together it increases the individual survival probability.

If you have 100 people attend an A&E in a night then prioritisation enhanced by an automated system can help increase survivability outcomes.

It's a fascinating area.

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