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Position paper: intermediate care
- Authors:
- PARKER Gillian, PEET Susan
- Publisher:
- University of Leicester. Nuffield Community Care Studies Unit
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 71p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
In the previous two decades there has been a greater impetus to manage patient flows within the National Health Service (NHS). Concerns about increasing number of older people in need of acute care combined with policy changes relating to community care which have the potential to slow down the process of discharging medically fit older people from hospital have resulted in a widening debate about the most appropriate means of providing acute health care to all patient groups. Recent policy initiatives, (including the National Performance Framework, the NHS Plan and, most recently, the National Service Framework for older people) provide clear commitments to providing appropriate, high quality and equitable services for older people. One of the significant features of these initiatives has been the growing importance of intermediate care as a vehicle for delivering health and social care to older people at the intersection of primary, acute and community care services. The announcement of substantial investment in intermediate care services for older people between now and 2004, underlines the need to know more both about how intermediate care services are being defined and used, and about the evidence that is available for best practice in this developing area.
Bed-blocking plan fails to please all
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.10.01, 2001, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Finds out why the government's £300 million investment in social services for older people has received a mixed response from social care professionals.
Homeward bound
- Author:
- WOODCOCK Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.8.01, 2001, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains how a step-down scheme helped one depressed patient move from long-term care in a hospital to a nursing home and then back to his own house in only six weeks.
When it's time to go home
- Author:
- SHEPHERD Eileen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.8.01, 2001, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Sending a patient home from hospital without the right support can be costly in human and financial terms. Looks at the importance of proper discharge planning, particularly for older people.
The care homes catastrophe
- Author:
- BUNCE Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 2.8.01, 2001, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that nursing homes are closing at a rate of more than 15 a week which means that hospitals are full of older people with nowhere to go and scores of nurses are being lost to the profession.
Cutting it fine
- Authors:
- STEELE Val, WRIGHT Rowena
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 12.4.01, 2001, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on how by introducing therapy assistants for patients in need of rehabilitation, one trust has succeeded in dramatically reducing length of stay.
Weathering the winter blues
- Author:
- HOLSTROM Radhika
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 9, December 2001, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at how councils are preparing to spend government cash from its new 'cash for change' programme aimed at tackling bed blocking.
Collaborative care
- Author:
- MILLS John
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 15.11.01, 2001, p.38.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on a project that has improved discharge management for older people in north Essex.
Real life research: the ups and downs of an intermediate care study
- Authors:
- TRAPPES-LOMAX Tessa, ELLIS Annie, FOX Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 9(5), October 2001, pp.18-24.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The second article about a comparative study of joint health and social care rehabilitation for older people. Discusses what has worked well so far, and how the various obstacles to doing systematic research across two complex have been tackled organisations. Also describes the sample group and report on data collection so far.
Can things only get better?
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.7.01, 2001, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Most agree that intermediate care is a good thing and that it will greatly improve the lives of older people. What is exercising many, however, is how the services will be co-ordinated, delivered and financed.