What is Intermediate Care?
In Milton Keynes, Intermediate Care is a jointly provided health and social care service.
Intermediate care provides a range of community rehabilitation and therapies to any person over the age of 18 who is resident in Milton Keynes and has a Milton Keynes GP.
Intermediate Care is different from many other types of community services.
- It normally lasts up to a maximum period of six weeks but frequently as little as one to two weeks.
- It is provided following a full assessment from which a care and treatment plan is drawn up.
- It normally involves the input of more than one discipline
- It has the main aim of providing rehabilitation to support independence.
- Services should be provided in or as close as possible to the person’s own home.
What are the main objectives for Intermediate Care Services?
- To prevent admissions into hospital.
- To reduce the amount of time that someone has to stay in hospital.
- To ensure that no one has to go into long term residential care from hospital.
- To provide support to maintain or regain lost independence.
- What Services are available?
Intermediate care provides a range of services to support independence. It can be provided in the home setting, in a community hospital or in a residential care setting.
- How do I access the Intermediate Care Service?
Intermediate Care Services are only accessible by health or social care professionals. All referrals are made through the Single Point of Access into Intermediate Care. A trained operator will take the referral
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