United KingdomHealthcare and life sciences2025 – ongoingUK Health Security Agency
Country-of-birth disambiguation for TB screening records
UKHSA used local language models to process approximately 10,000 ambiguous birthplace records each quarter
Problem
Free-text birthplace entries in GP registrations included misspellings and locations below country level. Staff manually resolved entries that existing lookups could not match.
Approach
UKHSA's Advanced Analytics team ran Llama-3.3 and Stable-Beluga-2 on its own computing infrastructure. Disagreements and unknown answers went to staff for review. The resulting countries supported subsequent TB-screening processing, while eligibility depended on additional criteria.
Results
Takeaway
The models handled the ambiguous records left after simpler matching. Staff retained responsibility for uncertain entries.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Business function
- Internal work and knowledge management
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
UKHSA documented a production tool for standardising birthplace entries. It reported approximately 10,000 entries processed quarterly and described manual review of uncertain outputs.
Full details are in the original sources.