...Marthe E. Ribbink; Catharina C. Roozendaal; Janet L. MacNeil-Vroomen; Remco Franssen; Bianca M. Buurman Purpose The acute geriatric community hospital (AGCH) in an intermediate care facility is an alternative to conventional hospitalization. A comprehensive geriatric assessment and rehabilitation...

...-use rights only Evidence-based practice Integrated health and social care Partnership working Multi-disciplinary teamwork Whole systems Intermediate care Shared decision-making benefits are key priorities across outcomes, health economics and service quality improvement (Joosten...

.... The inclusion of general practitioners (GPs) as part of the team was instrumental in setting up and maintaining the service and seems to be unique in intermediate care settings. Referrals into the ART service were dependent on awareness of the service at the interface with mainstream services. Transitions out...

...Kate A. Levin; Martine A. Miller; Marion Henderson; Emilia Crighton Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore implementation and development of step-down intermediate care (IC) in Glasgow City from the perspective of staff. Design/methodology/approach The study used qualitative methods...

... and reduce avoidable demands on health and social care services. Policy is therefore also increasingly focussed on support for self‐care (DH, 2005). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 User views/experiences Older people Reablement Rehabilitation Self‐care Intermediate care Social care...

... on a range of dimensions. The paper finishes by formulating suggestions for the factors which seem to have contributed to its success. KEY WORDS partnership; third sector; intermediate care; outcomes Introduction The need for collaboration between a range of different statutory bodies is well-established...

...Fraser Mitchell; Claire Dobson; Anne McAlpine; Siobhan Dumbreck; Ian Wright; Fiona Mackenzie This article reports on the experiences and outcomes of a demonstrator project in Fife aimed at improving intermediate care services. The project focused on three strands: workforce development, extended...

... services and some health services prior to hospital admission, charts the patient journey in hospital, and provides information on discharge destinations. The findings have implications for the discharge planning process and the improvement of community care services, including intermediate care. ©...

...Mathew Mackenzie; Iain Carpenter; Kathy Kotiadis This paper demonstrates that three intermediate care services in Shepway, East Kent each cater for distinct patient groups, and that data from a single assessment process (SAP) tool can be used to differentiate between them. By applying statistical...

... on the evidence for a generic health and social care support worker role and on good practice examples, an ADP was agreed, with the aim of developing 300 support staff working in intermediate care services in England.Teams started to participate in the ADP in September 2003 and the programme ran for 12 months...

... together, which facilitated co‐evolution within whole systems. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Intermediate Care Integrated Care Making Connections: feature Effective Development of the Intermediate Tier Gill Herbert Geoff Lake INDEPENDENT CONSULTANTS ABSTRACT This article distils...

...Jill Manthorpe; Michelle Cornes New service models such as intermediate care may find it difficult to involve older people in services that are time‐limited and unfamiliar. Their staff may perceive themselves as having little time to sustain or build relationships with voluntary and community‐based...

...K Kotiadis; G Carpenter; M Mackenzie This paper demonstrates how a single assessment tool can be linked to intermediate care services eligibility criteria to examine referrals and admissions to these services, by reporting on a project in a locality in East Kent. The project involved implementing...

...Susan Nancarrow This paper presents the experiences and perspectives of practitioners involved in the delivery of intermediate care. The findings emerged from three workshops involving therapists, nurses, social workers and managers from across South Yorkshire which were designed to explore service...

...Jill Manthorpe; JoyAnn Andrews; Mieke Agelink; Sanne Zegers; Michelle Cornes; Melanie Smith; Roger Watson Intermediate care services generally focus on health and social care organisations as the key commissioning and providing agencies. The private sector is an important contributor to residential...

...Sheena Asthana; Joyce Halliday This paper considers intermediate care as part of a whole‐systems approach to care. It argues that this perspective allows a wider appreciation of the potential benefits of intermediate care, and that this would also be a welcome feature in future research studies...

... criteria for continuing health care. But in the wake of a special report from the Health Service Ombudsman, there is still plenty of room for debate about the lawfulness of the criteria. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Continuing Care Delayed Discharge Single Assessment Process Intermediate Care...

...Susan Nancarrow This paper discusses the pressures on intermediate care services to provide a flexible approach to staffing, including a constantly changing policy context, winter pressures and different service remits. It suggests three ways that managers can address the issue of flexibility...

...Eileen Waddington; Melanie Henwood Home from Hospital schemes run in the UK by the British Red Cross meet and match intermediate care policy's objectives. A review of 17 schemes undertaken in 1996 is compared with a review of 55 schemes operating in 2003. It suggests that such schemes...

... different and better resourcing if they are to work properly. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Health Social Care Research Partnerships Evidence‐Based Practice Older People Intermediate Care Real-Life Research: knowledge base Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice Tessa Trappes-Lomax...