PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Out-patients: Monitoring (19 July 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2022 to Question 23446, what assessment he has made of the potential (a) cost savings and (b) clinical benefits of increasing funding for remote monitoring in all integrated care systems in 2023-24.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

A recent study of 507 people, with a control group, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed shorter lengths of stay, fewer readmissions and reductions in visits to emergency departments for those in receipt of home monitoring. These measures reduced costs and patients rated their care more highly. A regional programme is underway until the end of March 2023 to increase home monitoring and virtual wards to enable more people to recover at home supported by the appropriate technology.

While there are no current plans to increase central funding, it is expected that integrated care systems will continue to invest in these areas.

Answered by:
Gillian Keegan (Conservative)
26 July 2022