Our technology is tried and tested and has been proven to free up hospital beds, cut costs, and reduce A&E admissions.

Inhealthcare’s remote monitoring services and virtual wards include respiratory, heart failure and COPD, frailty, oncology, mental health and more.

We support more than 50 NHS trusts in England, as well as the five Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland, and we have a national agreement with National Services Scotland to deliver services across their 12 health boards.

We integrate with leading GP and hospital systems, meaning potentially lifesaving patient data can be accessed by authorised healthcare professionals when they need it. 

We also integrate with third party apps, wearables, and medical devices. 

Our services are loved by patients. In a recent survey, 99 percent of patients rated our virtual ward as either “good” or “very good”.

Inhealthcare is proud to be part of the ResMed family.

Case study: Leeds Teaching Hospitals save 3088 bed days in 12 months

Inhealthcare is working closely with Leeds Teaching Hospitals to deliver remote monitoring and virtual ward services for several clinical specialties, including emergency general surgery, oncology, paediatric oncology, neurosciences, respiratory and cardiology.

Patients or their caregivers are being empowered to take physiological measurements such as blood pressure, respiration rate and oxygen saturation; and securely transmit their readings to care teams via a choice of digitally inclusive communication channels – mobile app, text message or traditional telephone.

Care teams have a single, centralised view of patient data to support clinical decision making, and if any readings fall out of range, they are alerted to enable early intervention.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals have saved 3088 bed days over a 12 month period. The first pathways allowed 528 patients to be safely supported at home as an alternative to being looked after on hospital wards.

In late November, the oncology paediatric virtual ward at Leeds Children’s Hospital featured on ITV Calendar. The virtual ward is making a difference to children and their families affected by cancer, across Leeds.

Want to know more about how Leeds Teaching Hospitals are using virtual wards? Get in touch and we’ll introduce you to the RMVW team.

Case study example: NHS Scotland reach 100,000 patient milestone for blood pressure monitoring

NHS Scotland has partnered with Inhealthcare to develop and expand a range of remote monitoring pathways, to help patients safely manage their health needs at home.

A growing number of patients are being offered Connect Me, the remote monitoring programme for Scotland, as a means to interact and communicate with their healthcare professionals. The programme enables people to have more choice and greater flexibility on how and where they manage their health and wellbeing.

The nationally funded programme is being used to monitor the effects of starting or stopping treatments, to issue reminders, or to encourage and enable clinicians to spot flare-ups so treatment can be delivered sooner. The programme also supports healthcare professionals to identify changes in health and offer advice and support during treatment plans.

Connect Me offers a number of pathways including heart failure, prostate cancer, urogynaecology, and core home monitoring (multi physiological readings) across primary and secondary care services.

One of the pathways is a national primary care blood pressure monitoring service, which has monitored more than 100,000 patients to date.

A snapshot into the Connect Me blood pressure remote monitoring service

High blood pressure affects an estimated 1.3 million Scots, and is the leading preventable risk factor for heart and circulatory disease, associated with around half of all strokes and heart attacks.

The blood pressure remote monitoring service is empowering patients to take control of their blood pressure, reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes while easing the burden on the NHS.

Connect Me enables primary care patients to share their blood pressure readings with healthcare professionals without attending General Practice appointments and promotes self-management to help control the condition.

The programme allows clinicians to monitor patient trends and change medication as required, whether levels improve from healthy habits or start increasing over time. The initiative has reached a major milestone, with over 100,000 patients using the service within all its iterations, making it one of the largest programmes of its kind globally.

Want to know more about how the Connect Me team are using remote monitoring across Scotland? Get in touch and we’ll introduce you to the team.

“Connect Me is another example of how we’re embracing technology to help tackle the challenges facing health and social care. It’s extremely encouraging to see that over 100,000 patients have benefitted from the platform to date, saving an estimated 400,000 appointments. I would encourage health boards to increase the roll out of Connect Me and for people who have hypertension to ask their GPs if they might be eligible for the programme. By empowering patients to take control of their wellbeing we are not only improving health outcomes but also significantly reducing pressure on primary care services.” – Neil Gray, Health Secretary 

Testimonials

“I’m really impressed with Inhealthcare. I can go to the company and get a same day-response. The clinicians really rate the kit. We really enjoy working with the team.” – Kim Ashall, Programme Lead for Virtual Ward for Cambridge & Peterborough ICB

“The use of remote monitoring equipment as an adjunct to the virtual ward, increases the safety and efficiency of the service, as well as reducing the workload of the ward staff­ who would have to take time to make these recordings and observations.” – Muzahir Tayebjee – Lead consultant for RMVW

 “The remote monitoring virtual wards have been a gamechanger for expeditiously managing patients in a di­fferent way safely and e­ffectively. We have for many years held on to a varied set of patients in hospital beds awaiting investigations, interventions or just for ongoing observation. By using the bespoke pathways, we have managed to facilitate earlier discharges and streamline ambulatory care of patients, vastly improving patient experiences. – Adam Peckham-Cooper, lead consultant for emergency general surgery

Want to know more? We’d love to hear from you! You can email us contact@inhealthcare.co.uk or call us on 01423 642480.