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Virtual Wards
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Programme Lead Kate Lodge explains how we have been supporting the implementation of home-based care through our Virtual Wards project .
Kate Lodge , Programme Lead
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic Yorkshire & Humber AHSN were asked to help identify technologies that could help manage the care of patients in their own homes to reduce the need for hospitalisation and emergency admissions .
This work came together in the implementation of the Virtual Wards project which we have been delivering across all three of our Integrated Care Systems ( ICS ). We helped them to identify and assess a range of healthtech companies who had solutions that could meet their needs and they selected to adopt products which were funded through the Joined Up Care Programme .
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