Intermediate Care

Intermediate Care provides care to help PATIENTS achieve what they want to do.

Description

Intermediate Care  is an ACTIVITY GROUP.

Intermediate Care  provides care to help PATIENTS  achieve what they want to do.

This may involve:

  • remaining at home when the PATIENT starts to find things more difficult

  • recovery after a fall, an acute illness or an operation

  • avoiding going into hospital unnecessarily

  • returning home more quickly after a hospital stay.

There are four types of Intermediate Care:

For further information on Intermediate Care, see the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence  (NICE) website at: Understanding intermediate care.