"Virtual hospital beds" can now monitor a patient's recovery while perse stays at home.

It sounds like a useful idea, for certain patients (not those who might need a rapid intervention if something goes wrong). Except that I suspect it is implemented in an unjust way, depending on nonfree software plus connection to the internet.

If that is the case, I'd have to refuse to allow it in my home.

It would be easy to implement such a monitoring system with free software. But I expect that the NHS never even thought about the issue.