Home-based Intermediate Care

Home-based Intermediate Care is an ACTIVITY GROUP.

Home-based Intermediate Care provides clinical assessments and CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS to PATIENTS in their own home or in a Care Home. For most PATIENTS CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS last up to 6 weeks.

Home-based Intermediate Care aims to prevent hospital admissions, support faster recovery from illness, support timely discharge from hospital and maximise independent living.

Home-based Intermediate Care should be delivered within two days of being referred to the Home-based Intermediate Care Service.

• Step up Home-based Intermediate Care:
  • provides care (at home and/or in the community) to help avoid unnecessary hospital admission for PATIENTS who following assessment are at risk of being sent to and/or admitted to hospital
  • includes PATIENTS who may be in their last years or months of life but are not in their last days of life
• Step down Home-based Intermediate Care:
  • provides care to PATIENTS (at home or in their community) following an admission to hospital and who are determined by a "medically optimised for discharge" decision making process to be no longer in need of hospital care
  • includes PATIENTS who may be in their last years or months of life but are not in their last days of life.

For further information on Home-based Intermediate Care, see the:

• age.uk website at: What is intermediate care?
• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE) website at: Intermediate care including reablement: NICE guideline [NG74].