
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8887
Date Request Received: 04/09/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 09/09/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Virtual Ward (Adult) Services
Request Category: Health
| Question Number 1: Virtual Ward (Adult) Services Timeframe: 1 April 2024 – most recent month available (monthly breakdown if possible). Please provide the following about your Adult Virtual Ward service(s): Configuration • Which adult pathways are delivered (e.g., frailty, acute respiratory infection, heart failure)? • Date of go-live for each pathway. • Usual operating hours. • Definition of a “virtual ward bed” used in reporting. | |
| Answer To Question 1: The Trust do not currently have any Adult Virtual Ward services. Any provision would be from HCRG. | |
| Question Number 2: Activity & Capacity • Funded capacity (VW “beds”). • Average occupied bed-days / occupancy. • Number of patients admitted and discharged. • Average length of stay on the VW. | |
| Answer To Question 2: See response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 3: Outcomes & Safety • 7-day and 30-day unplanned ED attendances, hospital admissions, or readmissions following VW discharge. • Number of patients escalated to inpatient care from the VW. • Number of deaths occurring on the VW. | |
| Answer To Question 3: See response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 4: Finance & Benefits • 2024/25 budget allocated to VW(s). • Any available analysis of cost-effectiveness or “bed days avoided.” | |
| Answer To Question 4: See response to Q1 | |
| Question Number 5: Data definitions • Please confirm whether your reporting matches the NHS England Virtual Ward SitRep definitions. | |
| Answer To Question 5: The Trust do not submit to this collection because we do not currently have any Virtual Wards that fit that definition. | |
| Question Number 6: If the above data is routinely submitted to NHS England or available in existing reports, please provide those reports directly. | |
| Answer To Question 6: Not applicable, as this is not submitted. | |
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