NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group has gone live with a nursing service using AI to identify patients at risk of needing urgent and emergency care.

The service involves using predictive algorithms, based on learnings from 30,000 patients over 10 years, to use information on their health signs in assigning a risk score to each patient. It runs on NHS trust servers to minimise the volume of data transferred. Scores are then manually screened by registered nurses to decide which patients to recruit to Navigator ' s Proactive Health Coaching service, a mixture of telephone and face-to-face contact designed to help them manage their conditions. A randomised control trial showed that among those supported by health coaching there was a 36% reduction in A&E attendances.
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