4 October 2021

A trial of a device which supports staff in monitoring patients in bedrooms has reported positive feedback by both staff and patients.

An evaluation found safety on the wards has improved, there is enhanced physical health monitoring, that patient care is better and that there is an improved patient experience.

The Oxevision allows staff to take contact-free vital sign checks without entering the room, while a person is asleep. It also provides real time alerts to potential harm, like someone falling.

It was trialled last year and throughout this year at 3 Beatrice Place (for Older Adults in Kensington), and some wards at Northwick Park Mental Health Centre (Harrow), Milton Keynes’s Campbell Centre, the Park Royal Centre for Mental Health, St Charles Hospital and the Woodlands Centre, Hillingdon.

Patients reported:

  • a greater sense of safety knowing that staff would be to respond quicker to incidents,
  • less disturbance throughout the night because staff were using the system,
  • and an improved sense of wellbeing with the technology in use.

Staff reported being able to:

  • Better manage patient safety and their own safety by having more awareness of patient location and a quicker response to incidents.
  • Improve physical health monitoring of patients and identification of physical health deterioration, thus giving them more confidence in caring for patients with physical health risks.
  • Improve the quality of care they provide to patients by using objective data to make better care decisions.

The Oxevision uses an optical sensor and infrared illumination (in a secure housing) to monitor a patient in a room. It detects movement and vital signs, checks pulse and breathing rates. There is no device connected to the patient and the technology works in total darkness.

To read the summary feedback report click here.

To read the Early Insights report click here.