Welcome to our service
We enable patients discharged from a hospital bed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital to continue to receive hospital monitoring and treatment at home. This means that if you meet the criteria for the service you can be safely discharged from hospital sooner, while continuing to receive the support you need.
This service is for residents in West Norfolk. This service is jointly provided by our Trust and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.
There are 3 treatment pathways:
- Respiratory.
- Heart failure.
- Cellulitis.
We expect you will be under the care of the Integrated Virtual Ward for up to 14 days, depending on your treatment plans and recovery.
If suitable for Integrated Virtual ward care, we will train you how to use a device which sends continuous or intermittent observations including your breathing, heart rate, and temperature, directly to the Virtual Ward team.
If there is a sign of health deterioration such as blood pressure rising, the Virtual Ward team gets an alert immediately. Staff can call you over the phone or by video call to talk through any health changes and decide on the most appropriate next steps.
When under the care of the Integrated Virtual Ward, you will remain under the care of their hospital consultant. You will also be supported by community and specialist teams from our Trust. This includes the Community Virtual Ward team and specialist heart failure nurses and respiratory nurses.
