Dorset Covid Oximetry at home (CO@H) model is a primary care led service, providing a system wide, reactive, and proactive model. Daily on boarding of patients from all GP settings, urgent care and ED into a single telehealth hub, located within Dorset Health Care, provides Dorset with the first system wide coordinated response to caring for people with Covid, promoting self monitoring and escalation quickly on deterioration.
What are it’s patient benefits (as stated by NICE)?
• CO@H team identifying deteriorating patients and improving outcomes.
• Delivery of CO@H across Dorset demonstrated immediate benefits during Covid-19 pandemic, supporting clinicians to remotely monitor their patients more effectively and efficiently.
• Dorset fast adopter and actively led and contributed to regional and national forums, sharing insights, developing resources for benefit of the wider NHS.
How is this being implemented in Dorset?
• CO@H model accessible to all 18 primary care networks (PCNs) and the three acute trusts within Dorset.
• Expected that, remote monitoring and digitally enabled pathways will be of huge benefit to Dorset’s population to support individuals living with long-term conditions beyond Covid and will be a fundamental component of future care delivery models soon, making Inhealthcare a sustainable and adaptable innovative solution.
