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Find out how algorithmic tools are used in public organisations

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Cabinet Office, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Government Digital Service

Find algorithmic transparency records from UK public sector organisations with information on algorithmic tools used in decision making. These are completed in accordance with the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard.

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Organisation Department for Health and Social Care
  • NHS BSA: Prescriptions and Dental Exemption check

    A check to confirm whether patients who have signed a declaration to claim free prescriptions or dental treatment and have not been confirmed through Real Time Exemption Checking, are eligible to do so.

    • Organisation: Department for Health and Social Care
    • Organisation type: Agency or public body
    • Function: Health
    • Phase: Production
    • Region: England and Wales
    • ATRS version: v4.0
    • Date published:
  • UK Heath Security Agency: TB Country of Birth support tool

    A tool to support manual processing of country of birth records, as a part of the invitation for TB testing for those from high-risk countries.

    • Organisation: Department for Health and Social Care
    • Organisation type: Agency or public body
    • Function: Health
    • Phase: Production
    • Region: England
    • ATRS version: v3.0
    • Date published:
  • NHS Blood & Transplant: Organ Offering Scheme Algorithms

    The organ allocation algorithms enable quick processing of data to ensure that every precious organ donated, has the best possible chance of being transplanted successfully by an effective, fair, and transparent means.

    • Organisation: Department for Health and Social Care
    • Organisation type: Agency or public body
    • Function: Health
    • Phase: Production
    • Region: UK
    • ATRS version: v3.0
    • Date published:
  • NICE: Cochrane Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT) Classifier

    Distinguishes randomised controlled trials from other types of study within research papers to help NICE staff narrow down the number of papers they need to read and review for evidence synthesis.

    • Organisation: Department for Health and Social Care
    • Organisation type: Agency or public body
    • Function: Health
    • Phase: Production
    • Region: Wales and 1 others
    • ATRS version: v3.0
    • Date published:
  • NICE: Priority Screening Algorithm

    Takes a set of titles and abstracts of research papers manually screened by the user and learns from those decisions to rank the unscreened papers, assisting staff in identifying the more relevant papers faster.

    • Organisation: Department for Health and Social Care
    • Organisation type: Agency or public body
    • Function: Health
    • Phase: Production
    • Region: Wales and 1 others
    • ATRS version: v3.0
    • Date published:
  • Health Research Authority: Proportionate Review Toolkit

    A toolkit presented as a PowerPoint questionnaire to help Research Ethics Committee applicants determine whether their project would be eligible for proportionate review.

    • Organisation: Department for Health and Social Care
    • Organisation type: Agency or public body
    • Function: Health
    • Phase: Production
    • Region: UK
    • ATRS version: 3.0
    • Date published:
  • NHS BSA: Residency Checker for UK EHIC/GHIC/PRC/S2

    A process to support confirmation of UK residency for entitlement to healthcare in an European Economic Area (EEA) country or Switzerland.

    • Organisation: Department for Health and Social Care
    • Organisation type: Agency or public body
    • Function: Health
    • Phase: Production
    • Region: UK
    • ATRS version: 3.0
    • Date published:
  • NICE: NORMA (NICE-ONS Recommendation Matching Algorithm)

    NORMA is an internal tool that allows staff at NICE to search NICE published guidance and recommendations quickly by undertaking a simple keyword or recommendation search.

    • Organisation: Department for Health and Social Care
    • Organisation type: Ministerial department and 1 others
    • Function: Health
    • Phase: Production
    • Region: Wales and 1 others
    • ATRS version: v3.0
    • Date published:
  • Department for Health and Social Care and NHS Digital: QCovid algorithm

    The aim of this clinical tool is to create a way of predicting how at-risk individuals might be from coronavirus. The tool was developed for use by clinicians in support of conversations with patients about personal risk.

    • Organisation: Department for Health and Social Care
    • Organisation type: Ministerial department
    • Function: Health
    • Phase: Retired
    • Region: England
    • ATRS version: v1.1
    • Date published: