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The national standard for intermediate care
- Author:
- GREENWOOD Lynne
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 3.12.09, 2009, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Some of the results from a pilot audit of standards in 116 intermediate care services are briefly presented. The audit was conducted by the British Geriatric Society. The possibility of a comprehensive national audit is also discussed.
Understanding service context: development of a service pro forma to describe and measure elderly peoples' community and intermediate care services
- Author:
- NANCARROW Susan A.
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 17(5), September 2009, pp.434-446.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The purpose of this paper was to develop a pro forma which classifies the components of service delivery and organization which may impact on the outcomes of elderly peoples' community and intermediate care services. The resulting analytic template provides a basis for comparison between services and may help guide service commissioning and development. A qualitative approach was used in which key evaluations and reports were selected on the basis that they described elderly peoples' community and intermediate care services. These were analysed systematically using a qualitative (template) approach to draw out the key themes used to describe services. Themes were then structured hierarchically into an analytic template. Seventeen key documents were analysed. The initial coding framework classified 334 themes describing intermediate care services. These items were then clustered into 78 categories, which were reduced to 17 subcategories, then six overall groupings to describe the services, namely; (1) context; (2) reason for the service; (3) service-users; (4) access to the service; (5) service structure; and (6) the organization of care. The resulting analytic template has been developed into a 'service pro forma' which can be used as a basis to describe and compare a range of services. It is proposed that all service evaluations should describe, in detail, their context in a comparable way, so that other services can learn from and/or apply the findings from these studies.
A rapid response intermediate care service for older people with mental health problems
- Author:
- GOMERSALL Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 5.5.09, 2009, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article follows the development of an intermediate care service for older people with mental health needs in North Yorkshire and assesses the impact of the service on patients, carers and referrers, and the availability of dedicated elderly mentally ill (EMI) beds.
Facilitating earlier transfer of care from acute stroke services into the community
- Author:
- ROBINSON Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 31.3.09, 2009, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article outlines an initiative to reduce length of stay for stroke patients within an acute hospital and to facilitate earlier transfer of care. Existing care provision was remodelled and expanded to deliver stroke care to patients within a community bed-based intermediate care facility or intermediate care at home. This new model of care has improved the delivery of rehabilitation through alternative and innovative ways of addressing service delivery that meet the needs of patients.
Together they cracked it
- Author:
- TICKLE Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.8.09, 2009, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
One of the adult care green paper's key messages was to use more joint working to provided better adult social care. This article reports on examples of practice. Torquay North Zone intermediate care team aim to reduce the risk of hospital stays and readmission by using a multi-disciplinary intermediate care team. Gloucester Council have commissioned a carers emergency scheme which provides trained support workers if carers are unable to get home. A short case study of the Essex reablement service is also provided.
Intermediate care: halfway home: updated guidance for the NHS and local authorities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 57p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document updates initial government guidance on intermediate care which was published in 2001. It aims to provide clarification of intermediate care and how it should work in relation to other local services. It builds on the existing guidance and also includes information on: the Inclusion of adults of all ages; renewed emphasis on those at risk of admission to residential care; inclusion of people with dementia or mental health needs; flexibility over the length of the time-limited period; integration with mainstream health and social care; timely access to specialist support as needed; joint commissioning of a wide range of integrated services to fulfil the intermediate care function, including social care re-ablement; and governance of the quality and performance of services. The guidance is aimed at commissioners but will be of interest to practitioners, providers, service users and their carers. Contents include: definition of intermediate care; users of intermediate care; why intermediate care is important; providers of intermediate care; types of intermediate care provision; what intermediate care should look like; what intermediate care should achieve; developing intermediate care. Annex 1 contains a summary of research evidence. Annex 2 is a number of practice illustrations of intermediate care in: Tameside and Glossop; Bolton; Bristol; South Gloucestershire; Lewisham; Cumbria. Annex 3 gives illustrative practice examples for mental health and dementia care in: Leeds; Hunter's Lodge, Leicestershire; Huntingdonshire; Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust; Central Lancashire PCT. Annex 4 is an illustration of a service model for a system with a single point of entry, identifying key points at which decisions have to be made.
The importance of collaborative theory in older people's services
- Authors:
- ANDREWS Tresa, READ Jessica
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 17(2), April 2009, pp.35-40.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The article shows how Southwark and Salford have attempted to bring alive government guidance by developing a mental health resource for those working at the intersection with integrated mainstream care. The solution was the Southwark Mental Health Intermediate Care team and Salford Intermediate Care Psychology and Counselling services. Although a local context receptive to partnership working was important, connecting collaborative theory with practice was crucial to the successful development of this resource.
Home advantage
- Author:
- DAVIS Rowenna
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.1.09, 2009, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A unique multi-agency teams has set up a service that reduces pressure on hospital beds by allowing older people to receive medical treatment in their own home. This article at the Welsh initiative operated by Torfaen Intermediate Care Services.
Short stay intermediate care services in a range of housing and care settings
- Author:
- PETER FLETCHER ASSOCIATES
- Publisher:
- DH Care Networks. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Factsheet considers how intermediate care within extra care housing works for commissioners, providers and service users. It updates previous factsheets following the Department of Health’s guidance on Intermediate Care issued as part of the ‘Prevention Package’ earlier in 2009. In undertaking the background research for the case study, a questionnaire was sent to organisations that had received funding from the Department of Health Extra Care Housing fund, where it appeared that there was an intermediate care element included in the funding bid. In addition to the focus on extra care, the Factsheet also considers the provision of intermediate care within other settings including sheltered housing and purpose built provision. The focus is on practical working models within different settings. There has not yet been any national evaluation of the costs and outcomes of intermediate care in extra care housing. However, the Department of Health and the Medical Research Council commissioned a national evaluation of the costs and outcomes of Intermediate Care services for older people from the Nuffield Community Care Studies Unit (NCCSU), University of Leicester, and the Health Service Management Centre (HSMC), University of Birmingham.
Are care homes the community hospitals of the future?
- Author:
- BOWMAN Clive
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 3(4), July 2009, pp.375-379.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The answer to the headline question ‘Are care homes the community hospitals of the future?’ is ‘yes’. In this paper, based on a presentation made at this year's Laing and Buisson Long-Term Care Conference, the author's support for this vision of the future is based on Bupa's international experience and observations of the international provision of aged care.