Intermediate Care
Intermediate Care is a generic term that covers a wide range of services that help prevent unnecessary admission to hospital, or help facilitate early discharge. As such, the term refers to a very important range of services that can help reduce delayed discharges.
Definition of Intermediate Care
Intermediate Care services enable people to improve their independence and aim to provide a range of enabling, rehabilitative and treatment services in community settings. The term has been defined as a "range of integrated services to promote faster recovery from illness, prevent unnecessary acute hospital admission, support timely discharge and maximise independent living". (NSF for Older People, DOH, June 2002).
By definition, services will be time-limited and timescales will be dependent on the needs of individuals or patients and the nature of the individual's condition.
A further definition is "those services that do not require the resources of a general hospital but are beyond the scope of the traditional primary care team" (Oxford and Anglia Intermediate care Project, 1997). This includes:
Intermediate Care which substitutes for elements of hospital care and
Intermediate Care which integrates a variety of services for people whose health care needs are complex and in transition.
Please click on one of our care homes that caters for Intermediate Care:
Cambridgeshire Kent
The Tudors Care Home Baugh House Care Centre
Essex London
Hillside Nursing Home Newstead Nursing Home
Willowmead Care Home Brackenbridge House
Hertfordshire Kent House
Autumn Vale Care Centre Milton Keynes
Halcyon Days Bletchley House
Heath Lodge Care Home Oxfordshire
Queensway House St Katharine's House
