intensive care facilities when they are having an operation but some do, and it is important to work out which patients require which hospitals when they have their surgery, and what we are working with, with this machine learning algorithm, is to try and improve that prediction. with over six million people waiting in the uk waiting for routine hospital treatment, hospital waiting lists have become a massive issue, putting increasing strain on the system. hospital trusts are exploring and experimenting with things like this al, to try and tackle the problem, but with wider concerns about artificial intelligence and data privacy, are these technologies a good fit with healthcare? the bma has been concerned for a while about the use of data, particularly patient identifiable data, being sold to parties for profit—making reasons. there is a tension in the system because you need to make sure that the different systems that you have got can intra—operate so that one app can talk to another app