Intermediate Care SIG
Aim: To facilitate collaboration across disciplines and across countries to enhance our understanding, adoption and evaluation of Intermediate Care as a key component of people-centred integrated care.
Activities: The SIG provides a platform for members to share implementation experience, highlight examples of good practice, signpost practical resources, and agree and collaborate on research, education and evaluation priorities for Intermediate Care. Members will shape the scope of SIG activities and outputs. These include:
- Webinars and online peer support
- Good practice case studies
- Practical resources
- Study Visits
- Blogs
- Evidence reviews
- Consensus documents
- Collaborative action research
- Benchmarking
Further information: Intermediate Care is a continuum of integrated community services for assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and support for older people and adults with long term conditions at times of transition in their health and support needs. Intermediate Care services offer alternatives to emergency inpatient care, support timely discharge from hospital, promote recovery and return to independence, and prevent premature admission to long-term residential care.
Intermediate care offers an enabling and integrated approach at the interface between home and hospital, and at transition from illness or injury to recovery and independence; helping people achieve their personal goals or outcomes. Intermediate care can be provided in:
Individuals’ own homes
- Sheltered housing and extra care housing
- Care homes
- Community hospitals
Get involved: The SIG is for practitioners, managers, researchers, students, and policy makers engaged in planning, designing and delivering Intermediate Care in different health and care systems.
If you have an interest in Intermediate Care, practical experience or resources to share, a question or challenge for SIG members, or suggestions for future SIG activities please contact Marie Curran, our SIG facilitator, IFICScotland@integratedcarefoundation.org
This Special Interest Group (SIG) has an international membership with 572 members and still growing. If you would like to be on the mailing list for this group, please email Marie Curran: IFICScotland@integratedcarefoundation.org and you will receive SIG updates, IFIC Scotland newsletters and information on our webinars.
Facilitated by:
Marie Curran
Coordinator of IFIC Scotland Special Interest Groups
International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)
SIG Co-leads:
Anne Hendry & Marco Inzitari
Intermediate Care Workplan 2020 – 2022
Activities
Timescale / Date
Lead(s)
Actions for 2022
Webinars or eforum
Feb / March 2022 Round table on Discharge Pathways
IFIC Scotland
Plan with BGS and CHA
Jan 2022: Journal Club with JICA Special Issue Authors
Anne Hendry/ Helen Tucker
Plan with JICA and CHA
March 2021: Community hubs and neighbourhood teams
Recording and resource documents here
IFIC Scotland
IFIC Scotland & Strata Health
July 2020: Reimagining rehabilitation and recovery.
Recording and resource documents here
IFIC Scotland
Good Practice Case Studies
Ongoing – added to SharePoint here
Marie Curran
Focus on Reablement and Transitional Care / Discharge to Assess
Study visits / Twinning
Summer 2021 – Action Learning Group with Manx Care
IFIC Scotland
Island, coastal and rural models
Blogs
June 2021: Community Hospitals: Embedding Covid-19 positive impact changes through shared learning
Community Hospitals Association
Reprompt moderators to draft a blog
International Conference Participation / Workshops
EUGMS London Sep 2022
May 2022 – ICIC22 Odense, Denmark
Oct 2021 – NACIC2021 workshop on reablement
May 2021: ICIC21 Virtual Conference
Sep 2020: IFIC Virtual conference
IFIC
Collaborative Publications/Research
Collaborative survey of community falls programmes
University of Graz and RSCN
Abstract submitted for ICIC22
Plan to repeat survey
SIG collaborations on rehab and intermediate care
Various members
Various publications ongoing
Dec 2021: Editorial and 8 papers via SIG networks
https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1476-9018/vol/29/iss/4
Anne Hendry/ Helen Tucker/ Axel Kaehne
2 peer reviewed publications on intermediate care since 2020 by international consortium
Univ of Galway team
Consider Delphi on Reablement
Education and Training