Awards recognition for virtual care
First Community's Heart Failure and Frailty Virtual Ward services (part of the Surrey Heartlands and Doccla UK partnership) were shortlisted as a finalist for the Best Partnership Delivering Virtual Care category at the HSJ Partnership Awards on 19 March.
The partnership delivers virtual care across the region and is focused on enhancing patient care, reducing hospital pressures, and allowing patients to recover safely at home. Find out more here.
Representing First Community were Diane Winchester, Clinical Lead and Linsey Shaughnessy, Heart Failure Nurse Specialist (pictured).
Their work for heart failure admission avoidance proactive monitoring, has seen more than 140 people living well, with heart failure reassured by virtual monitoring. Many of these patients are aged over 65 years, busting the myth that older people cannot use technology.