Intermediate Care is an ACTIVITY GROUP.

Intermediate Care provides care to help PATIENTS achieve what they want to do.

This may involve:

• remaining at home when the PATIENT starts to find things more difficult
• recovery after a fall, an acute illness or an operation
• avoiding going into hospital unnecessarily
• returning home more quickly after a hospital stay.

There are four types of Intermediate Care:

• Reablement Intermediate Care
• Crisis Response Intermediate Care
• Home-based Intermediate Care
• Community Bed-based Intermediate Care.

For further information on Intermediate Care, see the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) website at: Understanding intermediate care.