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National audit of intermediate care 2012
- Author:
- NHS BENCHMARKING NETWORK
- Publisher:
- NHS Benchmarking Network
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The National Audit of Intermediate Care was launched in November 2011 as a partnership project which includes the Royal College of Nursing. The audit aims to take a whole system view of the effectiveness of intermediate care services and the contribution made to demand management across health and social care systems in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The audit highlights wide variation in service models being used nationally with differences evident in the extent of multiagency integration, the scale of services provided, and how intermediate care sits within the full range of health and community services, in each local health economy. People with dementia are not systematically excluded from intermediate care but may be under represented amongst intermediate care service users. The cost of an intermediate care bed day reported by commissioners ranged from an average of £136 in residential care homes to an average of £252 per bed day in community hospitals. Also, mental health workers are rarely included in the establishment of intermediate care teams.
National Audit of intermediate care report 2013
- Author:
- NHS BENCHMARKING NETWORK
- Publisher:
- NHS Benchmarking Network
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 110
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The National Audit of Intermediate Care provides an overview of intermediate care commissioning and provision in England. This is the second year of the audit, which has been extended to cover crisis response and social care re-ablement services. The 2012 audit focused on health based bed and home intermediate care services; and this report presents findings from data collected on these subjects for both 2011/12 and 2012/13 for comparison. The audit is a partnership project between the British Geriatrics Society, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, AGILE - Chartered Physiotherapists working with older people, the College of Occupational Therapists - Specialist Section Older People, the Royal College of Physicians (London), the Royal College of Nursing, the Patients Association, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and the NHS Benchmarking Network. A Steering Group. The focus of this audit is on quality of service provision, and it finds diversity of provision and variations in commissioning. The cost of an intermediate care bed day reported by commissioners ranged from an average of £182 in residential care homes to an average of £260 per bed day in acute hospital settings. The data also continue to suggest that mental health workers are still rarely included in the establishment in intermediate care teams. People with dementia comprise only 12% of service users, and thus continue to be under-represented. (Edited publisher abstract)