Brian O'Connell

It's really medical care of the future, which has been delivered today.

Now, I went into this virtual ward, but I want to bring you first some patients who were treated using this remote technology with 24-7 care.

clinical monitoring from Vincents.

First up, Mary Holden.

Mary is a terminal cancer patient for the last 10 years.

She told me a little bit about her experience using the ward.

So just talk me through how it actually worked in your case then.

Well, everyone was at pains to say this isn't designed to limit or reduce your level of care.

It's not suitable for very highly complex cases.

So I went into this unit, which is on the campus in Vincennes.

It's in one room, several desktop computers, a large screen.

Dozens of patients were being monitored in their homes.

And first up in this clip is Paul Murphy from DocLab, which is the company behind this tech.

And we'll also hear Ruth Kidney, who's clinical nurse manager of this unit in Vincennes.

The data that's been monitored is being fed back in here to this virtual ward and we can see the nursing staff are here and they are looking at the data as it comes in.

So how many patients at the moment are being monitored at home?

It's not to replace, because you're 40 years nursing, so this isn't to take the jobs of a nurse.

It's not to replace what happens day in, day out in hospitals.

Yes, I spoke to Alan Whelan, who presented to Vincent's with a very severe infection.

And then he realised he could have some of his treatment offsite using this technology, as he explains.