Virtual Wards, Lewisham

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board
London
1 October 2025 to 31 March 2028

The service provides 'step-up' care for acutely unwell patients and 'step-down' care to facilitate earlier hospital discharge. It includes remote health monitoring and clinician support, with an initial clinical focus on COPD and Asthma. Digital tools are used for tracking vital signs, symptoms, and medication adherence, supported by a multidisciplinary team for data review and timely clinical interventions.

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Awarded value: £2.3m; As published
Published: 28 April 2025
Awarded: 24 July 2025; Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and Doccla
Contract length: 30 months; Ends 31 March 2028

What the contract covers

Healthcare service

Provision of virtual ward services, including clinical step-up and step-down care and remote patient health monitoring for NHS patients.

Provide a Virtual Ward for Lewisham
Provide step-up care for acutely unwell patients who may be treated at home or in hospital
Provide step-down care that facilitates earlier discharge or transfer from an inpatient ward while continuing medical treatment, oversight and diagnostics in the patient’s own environment
Provide remote monitoring and clinician support for patients, initially focused on COPD and Asthma
Enable patients to use digital tools to track vital signs, symptoms and medication adherence
Have a multidisciplinary team review the data and provide timely interventions when necessary

Lot	Estimated value	SMEs
NHS@Home Virtual Ward	Not stated	Not stated
NHS Virtual Plus Health Monitoring	Not stated	Not stated

Terms and requirements

Contract type: Healthcare service
Initial term: 30 months
Extensions: 12 months
Longest it can run: 42 months
Contract dates: 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2028
Certifications asked for: None stated
Lots: 2
Suitable for SMEs: Not stated
Category: Services
CPV codes: 85100000

Services in this contract

Urgent community response and hospital at homeMain service£1m typicalClinician-led virtual ward service with step-up and step-down care
Remote patient monitoring and virtual ward technology£115k typicalLot 2 remote health monitoring with digital tools for COPD and asthma

Lifecycle

Published
28 April 2025
Contract awardedto Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and Doccla
24 July 2025
Contract starts
1 October 2025
Contract ends
31 March 2028

The buyer

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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Doccla

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Cite this contract

Link: https://bidskim.com/tender/938111/virtual-wards-lewisham
Buyer reference: PRJ2153
Last checked: 5 November 2026

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board. Virtual Wards, Lewisham. Contract award, 28 April 2025. BidSkim, https://bidskim.com/tender/938111/virtual-wards-lewisham (accessed 5 November 2026).