NHS hospital patients will be sent home and monitored remotely as part of plans to free up capacity and avoid a winter crisis.
Health bosses want to create the ‘equivalent of 7,000 more beds’ within the next four months with 2,500 of them coming in the form of ‘virtual wards’.
This involve using mobile apps and and gadgets that can check oxygen and blood pressure remotely.
The proposals came as part of a raft of measures unveiled by NHS England