Award of Independent Intermediate Care and Non-complex Palliative Care Including End of Life Care

Intermediate Care is an umbrella term describing an approach involving a collection of services working in common with shared objectives and principles. It provides a set of bridges at key points of transition in a person’s life, in particular from hospital to home or from home to hospital and from illness or injury to recovery and independence; helping them achieve their personal outcomes. The key aims of the Service are prevention, rehabilitation, enablement and recovery.Intermediate Care can:• Prevent unnecessary acute hospital admission or premature admission to long-term care;• Support timely discharge from hospital• Promote faster recovery from illness• Support anticipatory care planning and self-management of long-term conditionsGood palliative care is about supporting someone in the last months, days and hours of life as well as enhancing the quality of life for both patients and families. This is achieved by applying a holistic approach to meeting the physical, practical, functional, social, emotional and spiritual needs of patients and carers facing progressive illness and bereavement. The aim of the Service is to assist with preventing admission to hospital (Step-up) or where the Supported Person requires more care than can be delivered at home but does not require medical intervention (Step- down).The full requirement is set out in the following document: IIC-NCPC Tender_Part 3_Service Specification