Hospital at Home services annual report: August 2026

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Improvement support

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Summary

This report summarises the impact of the national hospital at home programme for the period April 2025-March 2026, delivered by Healthcare Improvement Scotland. 

In this report, readers will find evidence of the programme’s impact on hospital at home services in Scotland in 2025/26, including: 

  • Progress in expanding services to new localities, disease pathways, and neonatal and paediatric populations.
  • Examples of delivering improvement support and promoting shared learning and best practice across Scotland.
  • An overview of how national programme objectives were delivered to support services with implementation, measurement and evaluation.

Readers will also find summaries of hospital at home activity data and estimates of healthcare costs avoided due to hospital at home during the reporting period.