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Virtual Wards: NHS England Midlands’ Bringing Pathways Together Programme

NHS England Podcast

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The Importance of Same Day Emergency Care

The virtual ward is an extension of what we've been doing over the years, which is moving from the bed in hospital to the chair. We know that deconditioning will result in higher rates of serious illness and a shortened lifespan for frail people. So instead of you having your blood test done or coming to hospital to have intravenous amatopiotics... we can send people to do those things for you. In the meantime, you're making your own sandwich, which you like rather than hospital food, which you don't,. You're not eating it, you can go to your own toilet, which you know where it is at night. And so it's moving from bed to

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