Virtual Ward Solutions

Virtual wards can reduce pressure on hospital beds and offer GPs a ‘step-up’ level of care. Graphnet's virtual ward solution is used across the NHS, enabling patients to be cared for at home, enhancing integrated health and social care and promoting multi-disciplinary team working.

What are virtual wards?

Virtual wards act like a hospital at home, patients can be physically discharged to their home environment, but their care and clinical responsibility remains with the hospital until clinical discharge.

How the virtual ward works

Acting like a hospital at home, patients can be physically discharged to their home environment, but their care and clinical responsibility remains with the hospital until clinical discharge.

Clinicians assess patient risk to establish if it is safe to monitor the patient at home. Graphnet manages the logistics for your virtual ward, sending out the right equipment to the right place at the right time.

Our virtual wards solution:

Enrols numerous patients quickly and easily
Patients are closely monitored at intervals outlined by clinicians
Generates alerts to support clinicians to manage any health concerns
Offers seamless ‘step down’ to primary care long-term condition monitoring
Should it be required, 'step up’ capability is available
Patients can be discharged from virtual wards within minutes

A flexible solution for virtual wards

With many years of experience, Graphnet has successfully implemented virtual wards to support the monitoring of a number of conditions, including:

Respiratory (COPD, asthma)
Paediatrics
Pneumonia
Diabetes
Heart failure
Frailty
Palliative care

What are the benefits of virtual wards?

There are a wide range of benefits when it comes to treating patients using virtual wards:

Shortens the length of stay in hospital reducing pressure on beds
Offers a new level of intermediate care (e.g. for GPs and others to refer to)
Information recorded is more frequent – providing richer analysis
Helps keep people at home (where most prefer to be and recover better) and home is usually better for their mental health
Facilitates timely and safe discharge
Encourages collaborative patient care
Improves communication between all services, patients, and carers

Patients who may otherwise be re-admitted to hospital are being supported in the community, reducing the re-admission rate and could anticipate better titration of medications

All our compatible medical device accessories are stringently tested to ensure compliance with our digital toolkit. To find out more about our Virtual Ward Solution, get in touch with our team today.