Why spend billions on hospital beds when you can care for patients at home?

It’s not hard to see why interest in “Hospital at Home” programmes is escalating.Hospitals are costly to run and stressful to be in. It’s also well known that many patients contracted covid-19 in hospital and the risks of non-covid related adverse events are high. A recent study found one in four hospital admissions was associated with an adverse event, of which a quarter were preventable.1The galvanising impact of the pandemic on developing new forms of acute medical care for people outside hospital was much in evidence at the recent World Hospital At Home Congress which attracted 670 participants from 34 different countries. The participants were mostly doctors and nurses in the vanguard of running Hospital at Home (HaH) programmes.Joe Smith, a former cardiologist and now chief scientific officer of BD, a US medical technology company, underlined that industrial style medicine delivered in hospitals is hugely expensive, too often unsafe, not…
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