Shifting Care Left: Plymouth

LIVING LAB

The Plymouth Living Lab demonstrates how technology can support patient care closer to home, including preventing hospital re-admissions and helping patients manage and monitor their long-term conditions.

Government Priority
Hospital to community

Setting Category
Community & residential care

Setting type
Social housing provider

Why this matters

As part of the NHS Left Shift agenda, moving care from hospital to community and home will reduce healthcare costs, increase efficiencies, and enable prevention. To achieve this, we need to strengthen primary care and community services, and empower patients to manage their health proactively.

This Living Lab facilitates the co-design and testing of Digital health technologies (DHTs) and self-monitoring tools to support patients in managing their conditions, avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions, and initiating early intervention.

Implementing secure digital solutions

This Living Lab explores technologies and approaches, including:

Patient activation

Remote monitoring

Automated interventions

Data orchestration

Interoperability

Patient communications

Webex Calling

Asset tracking

Digital signage

Vision analytics

Creating better outcomes

Through collaboration and real-world testing, this Living Lab:

Reduces hospital demand and service burden

Enables the shift to prevention

Facilitates cross-systemcommunication

Empowers patients and citizens

Who's involved

The Plymouth Living Lab brings together NHS, technology partners and academic researchers to co-design, test and evaluate digital solutions before wider adoption.