Brian O'Connell

Poo Prince, it's a US company, it registers dogs' DNA and you can swab dogs in the neighbourhood and then an estate or a community can take a sample of rogue deposits and match them up.

Residents then of a city in Taiwan, I saw, were offered a lottery ticket for every bag of poo they handed in.

They collected 14,500 bags from 4,000 people and the winner got just over £1,400 sterling.

It's not often we get 100% satisfaction ratings, is it, in our health service?

Yes, indeed.

It's well documented we have a bed capacity issue here.

So just 2.9 beds per 1,000 people.

EU average is 4.6.

So anything we can do to lessen that pressure is obviously welcomed.

Technology is one way.

Now, this doesn't suit every patient.

But say, for example, patients who require monitoring before or after a procedure, perhaps they're given certain medication they need to be monitored.

So this advancement in virtual wards means we can monitor patients remotely.

We have trained staff and medics on site

And I went into this virtual ward.

One of them is in St.

Vincent's.

There were no beds, just staff who were behind a desktop computer looking at a patient's real-time progress on large screens.

And then the patients are mostly at home.

So that's the beauty of it.