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A NEW hospital service has been praised after an 86-year-old suffered a number of mini strokes and was successfully treated at home.

Virtual wards have been hailed by some as a potential way to improve patient flow and reduce workforce pressures. Nursing Times has spoken to nurses who

She announced today? the useful things shes really talking about are really efforts on ambulances and bed blocking. and thats certainly going to help over the winter. and so, she is talking about additional call handlers, shes talking about... 999 calls. thats right. and shes talking about about 500 million for helping people to get out of beds and into social care. and then something called virtual wards, theyre going to use, which is where youre not discharged but youre sort of sent home with,...

Going to help over the winter. and so, she is talking about additional call handlers, shes talking about... 999 calls. thats right. and shes talking about about 500 million for helping people to get out of beds and into social care. and then something called virtual wards, theyre going to use, which is where youre not discharged but youre sort of sent home with, like, a tag, like a sort of prison tag but a bit more sophisticated. and it monitors your well being, and they can monitor you from hom...

Neesha Oozageer Gunowa and Kerry Bareham on the pivotal role of community nurses.

Following the success of the Covid-19 virtual wards programme, where patients who would otherwise be ineligible for home recovery were telemonitored and allowed to safely recover at home, the Health Ministry is looking at a similar set-up for other medical conditions.

Virtual wards and pop-up clinics part of £160m initiative to cut waiting lists Aine Fox, PA 12 May 2021, 9:42 pm Virtual wards, 3D eye scanners and at-home antibiotic kits are among the new initiatives to be trialled as part of a multimillion-pound effort to tackle lengthy waiting lists in the NHS. Funding of £160 million has been announced by NHS England to aid the health service’s recovery after the pandemic. Figures last month revealed the number of people in England waiting to begin hos...