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Home comforts
- Author:
- CASTLETON Beverly
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 21.09.06 Intelligence Supplement, 2006, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Prescribed telecare packages could help older or vulnerable people live at home safely for longer. The author asks why they are not more widely used, and looks at the successful experiences of North Surrey primary care trust.
A short step from home
- Authors:
- McCLOUGHRY Helen, WALKER Debbie, STURDY Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Nurse, 19(2), October 2003, pp.68-69.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Short-term care packages that integrate hospital services and primary care not only cut unnecessary admissions but enable older patients to recover in a setting more conducive to their well-being. Looks at Nottingham's intermediate care service.
Tool to support nursing leaders making decisions about bed-based intermediate care
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 22
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This tool sets out what nursing leaders should consider when making decisions about bed-based intermediate care, a model of care to help people to avoid hospital or get home sooner. The tool presents a series of questions across eight themes that represent what needs to be in place for high quality, bed-based intermediate care. The themes include that the bed-based intermediate care service: has a defined scope and purpose; is accessible and well-signposted for service users and health and social care staff; is based on a single, holistic assessment process and identification of an individual's goals and personal outcomes; admission and discharge criteria are clear; its contribution within the broader health and social care system is clear; there is an appropriate staffing and skill mix; and that it is designed to support reablement. Although the tool takes a nursing perspective, it may also be useful to other professionals involved in planning and delivering intermediate care, such as allied health professionals, medical staff, social workers and social care staff. (Edited publisher abstract)
Getting the best out of student placements
- Author:
- HUGHES Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.1.11, 2011, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Five week intermediate care placements are increasingly used in the community nursing module of the nursing degree programme. They offer an opportunity to learn about multidisciplinary working and collaboration. Negative feedback from 10 student nurses about intermediate care placements led to a focus group to see what could be done to improve students experiences. This article discusses the outcome of the focus group, and gives guidance on how to ensure students get the most out of intermediate care placements.
"Riding the bumpy seas": or the impact of the knowledge skills framework component of the Agenda for Change initiative on staff in intermediate care settings
- Authors:
- McCLIMENS Alex, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 24(1), January 2010, pp.70-79.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Drawing on data derived from a larger Department of Health funded research project that explored the impact of workforce flexibility on the costs and outcomes of older peoples' community-based services, this paper explores the compatibility of the recently modernised NHS pay structure, Agenda for Change (AfC), with the workforce flexibilities arising within intermediate care services in the NHS in England. Focus group interviews were held with 158 staff from 11 teams in intermediate care services for older people, typically including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, an administrator and support workers. The findings showed areas of potential compatibility of AfC with the delivery of intermediate care services and also several areas of tension or incompatibility between the two approaches, with intermediate care described as a largely non-hierarchical service structure where staff roles expand horizontally to take on a broad range of generic tasks, while in contrast AfC promotes a hierarchical framework for career progression that recognises and rewards defined skills, expertise and responsibility. The authors conclude that attempting to overlay the hierarchical structure of AfC on top of the flat intermediate care structure did not achieve the original goals of AfC, and suggest that there is a need for more research in this area.
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.
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.
Piloting stroke rehabilitation in a community hospital
- Author:
- DOBRZANSKA Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.10.06, 2006, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article describes a pilot scheme that allows the early discharge of patients following a stroke from the local MHS trust hospital to a community hospital. A multidisciplinary approach was adopted, admission criteria were set and staff were given training in stroke rehabilitation. The multi-disciplinary team included a social service representative and a consultant in the care of older people.
Targeting in mental health services: a multi-disciplinary challenge
- Editors:
- COTTERILL Lesley, BARR Wally, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 315p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This work has its origins in a three-year research project initially entitled, "Do SEMI Registers Make a Difference?" and known, for short, as the SEMI Register Project. The research project was designed to monitor and evaluate the introduction of registers for people with severe and enduring mental illness (SEMI) in general practices across the Wirral. In the context of this discussion, and within the framework of the mental health and social care reforms currently being introduced, key issues in the targeting agenda include: definitional issues surrounding the term "SEMI"; practical and methodological concerns about how people with SEMI are to be identified and targeted; interface issues relating to multi-disciplinary working between primary and secondary care; issues concerning the evidence-base for risk management policies and strategies; the role of training in effective targeting; reflection on the potential consequences of targeting policies and initiatives; and the meaningful involvement of service users from all sections of society.