Qualitative interview study to explore perspectives of district nursing, hospital at home and care home staff towards health technology in their services

District nursing, care home, and hospital-at-home staff are being interviewed about their real-world experiences with health technologies—from monitoring devices to digital record systems—to understand why some tools succeed and others fail in community care settings. This matters because the UK’s ageing population is increasingly cared for outside hospitals, yet the technologies meant to support that care are often designed without input from the nurses and carers who actually use them. The result is devices and software that don’t fit workflows, create extra paperwork, or simply get abandoned. This study directly addresses that gap by asking frontline staff what they need, what frustrates them, and what would genuinely help. If the research succeeds, it will produce a prioritisation model that industry can use to develop technologies that match real-world care needs—rather than what engineers assume is useful. That could mean fewer wasted devices, less staff frustration, and more reliable support for patients staying at home or in care homes. The impact is on the quiet infrastructure of community healthcare: the systems and tools that keep district nursing teams functioning and allow older people to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.