Growing numbers of NHS patients could be treated at home as a "virtual hospital" frees up physical beds.
With the aim of replicating hospital care in the comfort of patients' homes, so-called "virtual wards" are being rolled out across the country. Merseyside has already seen success with respiratory virtual wards for patients with COPD and covid, and doctors hope to free up thousands of hospital bed days by expanding the service into other areas.
A new heart failure virtual ward - the second in the country - has had roughly 40 patients, as old as 94, in the six weeks since it was jointly launched by Mersey Care and Liverpool University Hospitals (LUHFT), in partnership with digital health company Docobo.
