NHS

Reduce routine reassurance visits with smart health care at home

With the NHS under increasing pressure to focus resources where most impactful, we provide local authorities with proactive technology enabled care solutions to enhance rather than disrupt existing ways of working.

  • More efficient Discharge to Assess pathway
  • Projected gross savings of £6.7million over 5 years (for a typical local authority)
  • Reduce delayed transfers of care
Delayed discharges and 12-hour A&E waits remain at historic highsMonthly, April 2010 to June 2026
  • Delayed transfers of care / delayed discharges (left axis)
  • Patients spending more than 12 hours from decision to admit to admission (right axis)
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Redrawn from Age UK analysis of NHS England (2026) Acute Daily Discharge Situation Report, April 2010 to June 2026; NHS England (2019) Delayed Transfers of Care; and NHS England (2026) A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions 2026-27. The two measures are not directly comparable, and the gap in the delayed discharge line marks a change in dataset. Values are read from the published chart and are approximate.

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