Home-based Intermediate Care
Home-based Intermediate Care provides clinical assessments and CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS to PATIENTS in their own home or in a Care Home.
Description
Home-based Intermediate Care is an ACTIVITY GROUP.
Home-based Intermediate Care provides clinical assessments and CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS to PATIENTS in their own home or in a Care Home. For most PATIENTS CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS last up to 6 weeks.
Home-based Intermediate Care aims to prevent hospital admissions, support faster recovery from illness, support timely discharge from hospital and maximise independent living.
Home-based Intermediate Care should be delivered within two days of being referred to the Home-based Intermediate Care Service.
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Step up Home-based Intermediate Care:
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Step down Home-based Intermediate Care:
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provides care to PATIENTS (at home or in their community) following an admission to hospital and who are determined by a "medically optimised for discharge" decision making process to be no longer in need of hospital care
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includes PATIENTS who may be in their last years or months of life but are not in their last days of life.
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For further information on Home-based Intermediate Care, see the:
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age.uk website at: What is intermediate care?
Where Used
Type | Link | How used |
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NHS Business Definition | Home-based Intermediate Care | references in description Home-based Intermediate Care |
NHS Business Definition | Home-based Intermediate Care Service | references in description Home-based Intermediate Care |
NHS Business Definition | Intermediate Care | references in description Home-based Intermediate Care |
NHS Business Definition | Other Intermediate Care Waiting Time Measurement | references in description Home-based Intermediate Care |
NHS Business Definition | Other Intermediate Care Within 2 Days Waiting Time Measurement | references in description Home-based Intermediate Care |