Question follow-through · 103163
Accident and Emergency Departments: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the press release of 28 December 2025 on AI use in hospitals, how many NHS Trusts have deployed AI-based triage or patient-flow tools in A&E departments as of January 2026; and what cri
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2026 · 24 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the press release of 28 December 2025 on AI use in hospitals, how many NHS Trusts have deployed AI-based triage or patient-flow tools in A&E departments as of January 2026; and what cri
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2026
Answer published
We do not know how many artificial intelligence (AI) based triage or patient flow tools are in accident and emergency (A&E) departments. The A&E demand forecasting tool discussed in the 28 December 2025 press release ‘Faster treatments and support...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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