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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 she's really talking about are really efforts on ambulances and bed blocking. and that's certainly going to help over the winter. and so, she is talking about additional call handlers, she's talking about... 999 calls. that's right. and she's talking about about 500 million for helping people to get out of beds and into social care. and then something called virtual wards, they're going to use, which is where you're not discharged but you're sort of sent home with, like, a tag, like a sort of prison tag but a bit more sophisticated. and it monitors your w...

Going to help over the winter. and so, she is talking about additional call handlers, she's talking about... 999 calls. that's right. and she's talking about about 500 million for helping people to get out of beds and into social care. and then something called virtual wards, they're going to use, which is where you're not discharged but you're 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 home. so, that sort of package of measures i think is certainly quite useful for dealing with som...

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