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AI agent offers honest NHS cancer wait time stats, refuses personalized forecasts

An AI agent was developed to provide transparency on NHS cancer wait times, drawing inspiration from real-time order tracking available for food and deliveries. The agent's core feature is its refusal to provide personalized wait time forecasts, as such predictions are not supported by available data. Instead, it offers patients honest statistics on their local hospital's historical performance against national targets, presented in an easily understandable format. AI

IMPACT This AI agent could improve patient experience by providing transparent, albeit statistical, information about cancer wait times.

RANK_REASON The item describes the development of an AI agent for a specific application, rather than a core AI model release or research breakthrough.

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AI agent offers honest NHS cancer wait time stats, refuses personalized forecasts

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  1. Towards AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yusuf Ismail ·

    I Built an AI Agent for NHS Cancer Waits. Its Best Feature Is the Question It Won’t Answer.

    <h4><em>You can track a McDonald’s order in real time. Cancer referrals don’t work like that — and that became the whole point.</em></h4><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Rm-UeQAnlE3QCGX9j1q9Xw.png" /></figure><p>The idea didn’t come from a produ…