Current Landscape:
With the increase in the use of virtual wards, statistics show the number of hospital admissions have been avoided. NHS hospitals are being encouraged to refer more patients directly to virtual wards where they can receive treatment from the comfort of their own homes, whilst freeing up hospital beds and taking the strain off the NHS.
Importance and Timeliness of the Event:
The Virtual Wards Conference aims to bring together senior healthcare professionals, policy leaders, and industry stakeholders to examine and tackle key challenges in the sector. By fostering collaboration and sharing knowledge among NHS peers, the conference aims to improve the virtual wards sector, leading to enhanced patient care.
This event serves as a timely platform to promote innovation and collaboration, crucial for the effective management of virtual wards within the NHS and the overall improvement of the healthcare industry.
Key Content Streams:
- Winter Pressures and Virtual Wards: The growth of virtual wards in recent years offers significant promise for alleviating pressure on the NHS during the challenging winter months. By enabling patients to receive care in the comfort of their own homes, virtual wards help reduce the strain on hospital resources, providing a strong foundation for enhancing winter resilience within the healthcare system.
- Same Day Scanning and Point of Care in Virtual Wards: Virtual ward providers are enhancing the effectiveness of hospital-at-home services by ensuring that patients in need of urgent care receive prompt appointments, with quick and accurate diagnoses. This approach enables timely treatment while minimising waiting times and also helps prevent the spread of infections, reducing the risk of outbreaks.
- Staffing and Resourcing: An exploration of how the NHS is strengthening clinical leadership to champion the needs of both patients and clinicians. The focus is on fostering collaborative working and ensuring that the NHS is supported by a well-resourced and experienced team across the hospital-at-home network, contributing to the overall efficiency and quality of care in the healthcare sector.
- Technology for Virtual Wards: Integrating wearable technology into virtual wards enables continuous health monitoring, personalised care and self-awareness for the patient. Digital integration must be done well to create more effective tech-enabled virtual wards. Exploring ways to ensure the integrity and availability of patient data within virtual ward environments, adhering to stringent data protection regulations and cybersecurity protocols.
- Optimising Virtual Wards: Delving into how to optimise the set-up of virtual wards and learning from the past to overcome any previous failures from previous years.
- Planning and Mapping Virtual Wards: An examination of the strategic planning and integration of virtual wards within the healthcare system. This includes leveraging the NHS’s existing frameworks while addressing the technical challenges associated with integrating virtual ward systems with electronic health records, clinical decision support systems and other healthcare IT infrastructure. The goal is to enable efficient information exchange and streamline workflow coordination across the system.
Why Attend:
The Virtual Wards Conference offers a unique platform for attendees to actively participate in shaping the future of virtual healthcare delivery within the NHS. By fostering collaboration, innovation and knowledge-sharing, this event presents an opportunity for healthcare professionals to contribute to the improvement of patient care and the advancement of the healthcare industry.
We look forward to welcoming you to this crucial and transformative event. Come join us in forming a better future for the healthcare industry and the NHS.
Register now to be a part of this transformative journey and contribute to building a better future for healthcare and the NHS.
Key Subjects:
- Winter pressures on Virtual Wards
- Same day scanning and point of care in Virtual Wards
- Staffing and Resourcing
- Technology for Virtual Wards
- Optimising Virtual Wards
- Planning and Mapping Virtual Wards
