Pressure to fill intermediate care services with people leaving hospital has increased this year, leaving less capacity for these services to prevent hospital admissions. Too many frail older people ...

An agreed transition plan for when support from the intermediate care service ends will help to ensure that a person's specific needs are met, transfers to other services are successful and the ...

Thousands of older people are missing out on support to regain or maintain independence because of a lack of intermediate care services, a national audit of provision has found. Levels of intermediate ...

The NHS and social care sectors are experiencing unprecedented pressure due to increasing demand from people living longer, often with complex needs or impairments and 1 or more long-term conditions.

Intermediate care is seen as the core element in the government’s programme for improving services for older people. It earned a standard all of its own in the National Service Framework for Older ...

The demand for intermediate care far outstrips the supply, with more planning needed by commissioners to help tackle the problem, an audit has found. The first National Audit of Intermediate Care led ...

Bournemouth Intermediate Care Service (BICS) is a Dorset Health University NHS Foundation Trust (DHUFT) operated service. Its objectives include avoiding hospital admissions, providing rehabilitation, ...

A new report from Britain's leading representative body for independent health and social care suggests that more e... A new report from Britain’s leading representative body for independent health ...

Proposals to shift more intermediate care services in North Norfolk from in-patient beds to health care at home or in the community would allow more people to be looked after without increasing ...

Levels of intermediate care would need to more than double to meet demand, finds national audit. Thousands of older people are missing out on support to regain or maintain independence because of a ...