How virtual wards are reinventing roles
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How virtual wards are reinventing roles

Jennifer Trueland Health journalist

Boundaries between acute and community care are blurring as services evolve, including those in respiratory and cardiac care

Virtual wards are expanding in many parts of the UK, with the aim of allowing patients to get the care they need at home, rather than in hospital.

Nursing Standard. 38, 2, 75-76. doi: 10.7748/ns.38.2.75.s21

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