Bed Based Intermediate Care

Intermediate care can deliver better outcomes for people and reduce the pressures on hospitals and the care system.

Bed based intermediate care. Four broad service models of intermediate care have evolved. This report explores how intermediate care beds are being provided in. You receive support similar to home-based IC to help reach your goals.

Nationally this is over 20000 beds which at a cost of 250bed day is a gross opportunity of 18 billion or 26 of the c70 billion spent on acute care Andrews et al 2017. More intensity of monitoring and treatment and more. The audit measures intermediate care IC service provision and performance against standards derived from government guidance and from evidence based best practice.

Similar to intermediate care at home this is a time limited episode of care provided in dedicated care homes housing with care or community hospitals. Assessment and interventions provided in a bed-based setting such as an acute hospital community hospital residential care home nursing home stand-alone intermediate care facility independent sector facility local authority facility or other bed-based setting. In some regions home-based Intermediate Care is fragmented between hospital-at-home teams and reablement schemes.

The sooner bed-based IC starts ideally within two days of referral the better the chance of success. For most people interventions last up to 6 weeks. Role of intermediate care beds in care homes 31.

Bed based intermediate care may be provided as step up beds admitted from home as an alternative to acute hospital admission or as step down transfer from acute hospital for people who require additional time and rehabilitation to recover but are unable to have this provided at home. You will receive intensive support from a range of professionals. Intermediate care is a free short-term service.

It is a model of care which sits at the heart of the Scottish Governments vision for an integrated health and social care system. View details apply online for this Bed-based Intermediate Care Social Worker vacancy on Reedcouk the UKs 1 job site. Bed-based services are provided in an acute hospital community hospital residential care home nursing home standalone intermediate care facility independent sector facility local authority facility or other bedbased settings.