Community Bed-based Intermediate Care is an ACTIVITY GROUP.

Community Bed-based Intermediate Care provides assessments and CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS to PATIENTS in a bed-based setting, such as a community-commissioned Hospital Bed in an acute hospital, community hospital, residential Care Home, Care Home Services with Nursing, stand-alone Community Bed-based Intermediate Care facility, Independent Sector Healthcare Provider facility, Local Authority facility or other bed-based setting.

Community Bed-based Intermediate Care aims to prevent unnecessary admissions to acute hospitals and premature admissions to long-term care, and to support timely discharge from hospital. For most PATIENTS, CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS last up to 6 weeks.

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

• Step up Community Bed-based Intermediate Care:
  • provides care (in a bed-based setting) to help avoid unnecessary hospital admission for PATIENTS who following assessment are at risk of admission to hospital
  • includes PATIENTS who may be in their last years or months of life but are not in their last days of life
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• Step down Community Bed-based Intermediate Care:
  • provides care to PATIENTS (in a bed-based setting) 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 Community Bed-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].