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CommentThe data speaks for itself: our virtual wards go from strength to strength
The transformative potential of Hospital at Home services is driving dynamic change in healthcare delivery, enhancing patient outcomes, and easing pressure on traditional hospital systems, writes Elliot Howard-Jones
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HSJ InteractiveWebinar: Could better data flow help improve virtual ward outcomes?
In association with Wednesday 22 May 2024, 10:30am - 11:15am Virtual wards are a key part of NHS’s drive towards multidisciplinary, in-home care models. At a policy level, the emphasis until now has been on the number of virtual beds available per capita. While ...
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CommentMaking hospital at home work
Hospital at home services offer alternatives to traditional inpatient care in the NHS, showing potential benefits but requiring careful implementation strategies for success, writes Steve Iliffe
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HSJ PartnersThe secret to making virtual wards a success
Daan Dohmen explores why greater integration of virtual wards is needed and the benefits that improved education and guidance for patients throughout their entire journey can bring
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HSJ PartnersThe ghost in the machine – balancing the human and technology in digital transformation
Large-scale digital transformation is happening right across the NHS; however, this is often too focused on technological change and overlooks the human changes required to deliver the desired impact. An approach that balances the human and the digital will be key to ensuring sustainable, long-term change
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Beware costly assumptions about virtual care
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Lawrence Dunhill.
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HSJ PartnersGenerative AI, integrated care and virtual wards: The future of urgent care pathways
Embracing transformative AI solutions for ICSs helps maximise efficiency, reduce costs, and elevate patient care in the evolving landscape of healthcare delivery, writes Dr Reggie Sangha, medical director at Content Guru
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HSJ PartnersThe importance of integration to making virtual wards work
To ensure virtual wards succeed, they shouldn’t be seen as another new service but should be viewed as part of the existing ecosystem – not just in acute trusts, but across the whole ICB, writes Jardine Barrington-Cook
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NewsDischarging patients to virtual ward led to near-doubling of costs, study finds
Researchers have found the cost impact of discharging patients to a virtual ward was almost double that of traditional inpatient care.
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HSJ PartnersNHS at Home: a vision and reality
Virtual wards are a new, innovative operating model for healthcare, designed to help safely manage healthcare needs at home. With a smart, integrated approach that combines face-to-face contact with virtual environments, virtual wards can be the next leap forward for connected, efficient healthcare.
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HSJ PartnersCan remote care-at-home help the NHS tackle the challenges facing urgent and emergency care services?
Croydon Health Services Trust pioneers virtual ward services, leveraging technology to ease NHS emergency care demands and optimise patient outcomes and comfort.
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HSJ PartnersWhy virtual wards matter
Virtual wards offer a crucial solution to NHS capacity challenges, and enabling innovative and personalised nursing care, writes Natasha Phillips
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HSJ PartnersVirtual Wards: Getting the model right - A Perspective for NHS Leaders
NHS Virtual Ward models are a necessary solution for today’s challenges and the right investment for the future. The decisions trust and ICB leaders must make today can turn pioneering home care options into permanent operational improvements to the NHS hospital experience
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HSJ PartnersHealthcare’s coming home
Tara Donnelly, the founder of Digital Care and adviser to Doccla, the Virtual Wards company, talks about revolutionising long-term condition management in the NHS with remote monitoring and innovative digital support. Tara is speaking at the HSJ ICS Summit this week
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HSJ LocalVirtual hospital model ‘new gold standard’ for treatment
The chief executive at a trust behind one of the UK’s first ‘virtual hospitals’ has said this model is the ‘new gold standard’ for care provision and the trust is looking at a significant expansion.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Safety Improvement through Technology Award
WINNER: NHS Cheshire and Merseyside: Remote Monitoring Enabled Heart Failure Virtual Ward
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CommentThe three steps in a successful virtual wards programme
Sara Gariban highlights three barriers to scaling up virtual wards and how overcoming them will enable the NHS to fully harness their potential for patients, staff and the wider health and care system
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NewsNHSE rows with royal college over ‘unhelpful’ virtual ward targets
NHS England’s virtual wards target is leading to some lower risk patients being ‘over-monitored’ in pursuit of a headline ambition ahead of winter, a leading royal college has told HSJ.
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CommentThe public like the idea of virtual wards, but not the name
As NHS England aims to create additional capacity with virtual wards, public support proves crucial. A recent survey shows a delicate balance of opinions, requiring awareness-building and equitable implementation to succeed
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HSJ PartnersBT launches virtual ward programme to help transform UK health services
Programme launch sees BT partner with leading healthcare technology specialists to offer virtual wards and virtual care solutions for the NHS