Abstract
COVID-19 has not only demanded the care and expertise of health systems globally, but required professionals and services to rapidly develop novel and dynamic ways of working. In no other specialty has this been more the case than general practice, the face of which has been disfigured in myriad ways. But while our new working strategies are untested and reactive, not all should be regarded as substandard and temporary. One potential feature of post-pandemic general practice is a greater role for remote patient monitoring. SARS-CoV-2 infection is able to induce ‘silent hypoxia’ — markedly reduced pulse oximetry readings in the absence of significant symptoms — which may act as a harbinger of imminent clinical deterioration, and is predictive of poor early outcomes. Many NHS England localities rapidly deployed services to remotely monitor the pulse oximetry readings of …
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