one of the hospitals advocating the use of these tools is in wrightington.hip replacement, the team here want to see more daycare surgeries to shorten the time people spend in hospital and help clear the backlog. there is an app in development, a specific version of the my recovery app, to support the day case patients. you can bottle information that may get a lot of information just by talking but in some cases you have to have a lot of examination, some system to be able to measure the range of movement of a joint, accurately, which would be of benefit. artificial intelligence could be used in other ways to clear the backlog of cases. c2 ai, an approved user of the nhs dataset, is aiming to prioritise patients based on their operative risk and physiology in order to rank them in order of priority. they have identified 14 key variables that correlate the risk of mortality and will be able to look at the whole country's surgical backlog at once. we have a version of this where we can bulk load the full elective surgery list in one go, so we can see everybod