Transformation Directorate

I need to offer virtual rehabilitation services

Provide patients with the information they need to lead effective self-management, such as feedback on adherence to the rehabilitation programmes and results in real time.

Case studies

Online cardiac rehabilitation to support self-management

Online cardiac rehabilitation to support self-management

Leicester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has developed its own digital cardiac rehabilitation service which is available to others through NHS IP.
Cardiac rehabilitation programme for people who have heart problems

Cardiac rehabilitation programme for people who have heart problems

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has implemented an online cardiac prevention and rehabilitation programme.
Health and care videos to provide advice and guidance

Health and care videos to provide advice and guidance

Torbay and South Devon NHSFT has partnered with a Devon-based enterprise to offer patient advice videos in 135 different specialties.
Remote monitoring for people living with heart failure to reduce A&E admissions

Remote monitoring for people living with heart failure to reduce A&E admissions

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust introduced a bespoke heart failure and COPD remote monitoring service to measure patients' vital signs from home.
Close up of a finger in a device that takes blood pressure

Digitally managing preoperative hypertension to avoid surgical cancellations

Sherwood Forest Hospital used a telehealth service to establish whether a patient’s initial high blood pressure reading is confirmed hypertension, or merely an isolated incident.
Doctor wearing a stethoscope to listen to a patient's pulse while also taking a blood pressure reading

Telemonitoring at scale for hypertension in primary care

Telemonitoring at scale for hypertension in primary care.
Delivering digitally enhanced cardiac rehabilitation during COVID-19 restrictions

Delivering digitally enhanced cardiac rehabilitation during COVID-19 restrictions

This case study describes how an NHS provider successfully used a digital tool to provide cardiac rehabilitation throughout COVID-19 restrictions.
A patient sat on a sofa looking at a smartphone

A personalised cardiac rehabilitation programme to remotely monitor patients

A programme to help a cardiac rehabilitation team to deliver a remotely monitored service via a patient facing app and clinician data portal.

Disclaimer

These case studies summarise user and patient experiences with digital solutions along the relevant care pathway. Unless expressly stated otherwise, the apps and digital tools referenced are not supplied, distributed or endorsed by NHS England or the Department of Health and Social Care and such parties are not liable for any injury, loss or damage arising from their use.

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