World-Leading NHS Virtual Wards Treat 100,000 Patients In A Year

World-Leading NHS Virtual Wards Treat 100,000 Patients In A Year More than 100,000 patients have been treated in NHS virtual wards in the last year, with 16,000 patients treated in January alone.

Virtual wards allow patients to get hospital-level care at home safely and in familiar surroundings, helping speed up their recovery while freeing up hospital beds for patients that need them most.

There are now more than 340 virtual ward programmes across England – 58 opened in January – including a total of 7,653 virtual beds. NHS England