The Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in Greater Manchester launched a new Hospital at Home service on 18 March 2026 to allow residents to recover in their own houses and free up hospital beds for urgent cases.
This initiative uses a technology partnership between Graphnet and Luscii to track health data through a mobile app. Clinical teams use this information to monitor people with heart failure, respiratory issues, frailty, and postnatal hypertension from a distance.
The service is open to adults registered with a Stockport GP, and family members or carers can help with the digital setup if a patient needs assistance. By checking vital signs at home, medical staff can provide care without the patient needing to stay on a traditional hospital ward.
Similar programmes used by the NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board have successfully reduced hospital admissions and emergency visits by up to 50 per cent. Stockport health leaders hope to see similar results by preventing health problems from getting worse through proactive care.
This approach is designed to make recovery more comfortable while ensuring that expert medical help is always available through remote monitoring.
