The service provides technology to patients enabling them to be monitored at home.
Brian and Marion Smith have been using the service after Mr Smith had a cardiac arrest last year
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust said it was working with the "virtual ward" company Doccla to "provide hospital level care in patients' own homes".The trust's medical director Elizabeth Kendrick said the service prevented hospital admissions and enabled earlier discharge. Patients are also asked to fill in questionnaires and if a "red flag" was raised, by either the questionnaire response or an observation reading, a call could be made to the patient.Ms Kendrick said the service was "really great" as "patients do better at home"."People want to be in their own homes where they're surrounded by their own things, eat their own food and sleep in their own beds.
"It's also obviously cheaper to look after someone in their own home than in hospital, and we're also not having to deploy a nurse to check somebody's observations."In November, Brian Smith was admitted to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage after going into cardiac arrest at home.He and his wife, Marion Smith, were lent equipment to provide him with oxygen at home, and a tablet computer to record his observations.
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