Virtual healthcare provider scoops NHS remote patient monitoring contract
A Harrogate-based company has won an NHS contract to scale up remote patient monitoring across Scotland.
Inhealthcare has been confirmed as the successful bidder for an NHS Scotland contract to support the scaling up and mainstreaming of remote monitoring services.
The award supports the Scottish Government’s Digital Health and Care Strategy to transform and enhance the health and wellbeing of citizens through the use of digital technology.
Under the three-year contract, Inhealthcare will provide technology to enable people to record relevant information in the comfort of their own homes and relay readings to NHS teams for analysis.
The approach will help people play a greater role in the management of their health and support clinicians in their diagnosis, treatment and care decisions.
Advantages for patients include better access to service, less time spent attending and travelling to appointments and increased confidence and capacity to self-manage conditions and care.
Meanwhile, advantages for health and care services include better availability of data to assist early intervention, greater adherence to treatment, enhanced provision of care, productivity gains from less travel, more timely face-to-face contact with patients, and reduced hospital admissions.
The technology is being rolled out across Scotland’s health boards. The service can be used to manage illnesses including hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, heart disease, diabetes, depression, malnutrition, cancer and Covid.
Georgia Nelson, senior business development manager at Inhealthcare, said: “Winning this contract represents another major validation of technology-enabled care and provides the foundations for many more citizens to benefit from improved health and wellbeing at home and better quality of life.”
Bryn Sage, chief executive officer at the business, said: “Just as digital technology was at the forefront of our response to the pandemic, it will be central to how we rebuild and remobilise the health and social care system as part of the recovery from Covid.
“It was a pleasure to work with NHS National Services Scotland during this process and we look forward to delivering life-changing services for the people of Scotland. I am very proud of our team’s inspirational efforts to support the NHS.”
