BSNA publishes new report on transforming healthcare in the home - an ambitious vision for the NHS ten year plan

In March BSNA were delighted to welcome colleagues from across the NHS to our ‘Healthcare in the Home – benefits for all’ conference at the start of March to discuss how the NHS can achieve the Government’s desired shift to far more care being delivered closer to and in the home.

In recent years NHS England committed to fund the Virtual Ward model of care with a long-term ambition to establish 40-50 patients per 100,000 population in Virtual Wards. 

For BSNA members, the development of virtual wards is an evolution of existing care and support provided to patients at home. It is this existing model that should be the basis of the shift away from hospital care, where many more patients can be better cared for and treated in their homes. 

Over the last twenty years, BSNA members have provided nutritional care and treatments including tube feeding, parenteral nutrition, Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) and chemotherapy at home. 

Working in partnership with the NHS and other partners, our members have worked to deliver treatment and support to thousands of patients so that they are empowered to manage their condition and live their lives to the full.

The shift of care envisioned by the Government and the NHS presents an important opportunity to build on existing, successful, approaches to providing more patients with high-quality nutritional support and specialist intravenous medicines in their own homes. 

By hosting a conference on this important topic, BSNA and our member companies sought to bring relevant colleagues and organisations together to discuss some of the key questions and challenges that will need to be addressed to realise this ambitious vision.  Our report published today, we summarise those discussions and set out how the NHS can bring a vision for healthcare in the home to life within the hotly anticipated 10 Year Plan.

To view the report click: BSNA CONFERENCE SUMMARY REPORT HEALTHCARE IN THE HOME MARCH 2025