South East London ICB is to award its virtual wards contracts with a value of £3.5 million to Doccla UK and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, spanning services across NHS@Home and Virtual Plus Health Monitoring. One part of the contract, worth £2.25 million, is to fund Lewisham and Greenwich for […]
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£85 million investment to expand Hospital at Home and A&E frailty services in Scotland
The Scottish Government is set to make an £85 million investment in frontline frailty services, with plans to expand the Hospital at Home service to 2,000 beds by December 2026 and introduce frailty services in every A&E department by the end of summer 2025. The planned expansion of the service […]
12-month frailty virtual care project trialled at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is trialling a frailty virtual care programme, utilising tech to remotely monitor patients with long-term conditions in their own homes with the hopes of identifying early warning signs to prevent the need for more intensive support. Using the Graphnet Docobo platform to monitor patients remotely, the […]
NHS England’s December virtual ward update shares insight into occupancy and capacity
NHS England has published the latest figures for virtual wards from December 2024, sharing insight into capacity and occupancy, and allowing for comparison of the health service’s current position with the long-term ambition to reach “40-50 virtual ward beds per 100,000 people” outlined in the 2023/24 Priorities and Operational Planning […]
App to help manage care and coordinate interventions to be piloted in West Yorkshire
An app designed to help healthcare professionals document, manage and coordinate care for children and young people with complex needs is to be piloted in West Yorkshire thanks to funding from Innovate UK. EnrichMyCare, part of the 2024 Health Innovation Propel YH Accelerator Programme, was developed by a specialist paediatric […]
Norfolk and Waveney ICB awards £250k contract for social prescribing digital platform
Norfolk and Waveney ICB has awarded a two-year contract worth £250,000 for a social prescribing digital platform to tech supplier Pungo. Utilising the Health Systems Support Framework, the ICB aimed to realise improvements in care for the local community by using the digital platform to “support resilience and maturity of […]
October 2024 virtual wards share insight into occupancy and capacity across the NHS
NHS England has published the latest figures for the capacity and occupancy of virtual wards across integrated care boards in October 2024, sharing data on capacity, occupancy percentage and capacity per 100,000 of the GP registered population whilst also noting that the stats are “experimental” and “undergoing evaluation”. Regarding the […]
900,000 increase in video/online appointments delivered in primary care
NHS England has published the latest statistics on appointments in general practice covering the month of September 2024, with a breakdown of appointment mode showing an increase of almost 900,000 in the number of appointments delivered online or through video conferencing. The total number of appointments for September 2024 is […]
Single Point of Access scheme Norfolk and Waveney supports referrals to virtual ward pathway
A Single Point of Access scheme in Norfolk and Waveney, providing a hub through which clinicians from different services work together to refer patients, has reportedly helped 90 percent of referred patients avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. Through the scheme, clinicians from East of England Ambulance Service make a phone call […]
£700,000 grant for research into digital health intervention in enhancing post-surgery recovery
The National Institute for Health and Care Research has awarded a £700,000 research grant to a study seeking to explore the potential of digital health interventions in improving recovery and quality of life for patients following elective surgery. The funded study will be a three-year randomised controlled trial designed to […]
