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Virtual Wards provides a set of capabilities that enables the large scale management of patients within their own homes. It supports the care team delivery and management of personalised patient care and self care via a highly effective video based care channel.  

The SmartCare telehealth service management platform simplifies the delivery and operation of complex telehealth services. It provides the technical and administrative infrastructure to support the national policy of setting out a new direction for the whole health and social care system, based on care in the home and local community. The benefits of this approach to the delivery and management of telehealth services are significant: 

The national social and health care authorities need to catalyse a major growth in
telecare, at the same time as establishing high QoS, security standards and
interoperability across Public, Private and Voluntary organisations. They need to
establish a compensation infrastructure for the provision of remote care, to encourage the switch from face to face consultations. They need a telecare strategy that encompasses social care and health care in all its aspects, from managing VirtualWards to meals‐on‐wheels to remote support for the disabled.
 
The SmartCare next generation telecare network and Service Delivery Platform
provides the enabling framework.