The role of HITH is to provide hospital‐level patient‐centred care that can safely and effectively be delivered at home to keep patients out of hospital, 5  for example, outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy, chemotherapy and physiotherapy. The COVID‐19 pandemic does not change this, but the role of HITH may be impacted through: (i) increased referrals of patients without COVID‐19 to maximise hospital inpatient capacity; and (ii) new referrals of patients suspected or confirmed to have COVID‐19 with clinical features on the less severe end of the spectrum but requiring some element of hospital‐level care.