Delivering care closer to home
The integration of health and social care — care delivered in homes and communities rather than hospitals — was one of Better Health for London's most ambitious aims. It rests on a quiet backbone of equipment: the monitoring, nursing and assistive technology that makes home a safe place to receive care.
Home becomes a care setting — if it is properly equipped
Care closer to home only relieves the system if home is genuinely capable of holding it. That depends on remote patient-monitoring that lets a clinician see a deterioration early, community-nursing equipment that brings clinical capability to the doorstep, and assistive technology that supports independence rather than admission.
And it depends on reach: outfitting the mobile and outreach units that take care into the boroughs and communities the static system serves least well.
The community-care toolkit
What it takes, in kit, to deliver dependable care outside hospital walls.
Remote patient-monitoring kit
Connected devices that let community teams watch a patient's condition between visits and intervene before a crisis.
Community nursing equipment
The clinical kit that brings wound care, observation and treatment to the home and the community clinic.
Assistive technology & independence aids
Technology and aids that keep people safe and independent at home — and out of avoidable admission.
Mobile & outreach unit outfitting
Equipping the units and teams that reach London's most under-served boroughs and tackle the access gap directly.
The shift toward community-based care
Care closer to home has been a stated direction for over a decade. Equipment is what turns the direction into delivery.
Better Health for London
The inquiry calls for stronger community and primary care and the integration of health and social care across the capital.
Integration becomes policy
Care-closer-to-home moves from ambition to operating model — and runs into the practical question of what equips it.
Monitoring closes the loop
Remote monitoring and assistive technology make it genuinely safe to hold more care outside hospital — where it is equipped to be held.