First reported 23 Feb 2016•Latest report 10 Nov 2022
Definition
What this concern includes
Includes failures of an explicitly identified intermediate care arrangement or service affecting its safe provision or management, including unclear care standards, governance and management responsibilities, inadequate planning, bed or capacity availability, and related controls needed to provide appropriate intermediate care.
Not included
Excludes generic hospital, care-home or social-care capacity deficiencies unless they are explicitly tied to an intermediate care arrangement.
Excludes generic governance, planning or accountability failures that do not concern the safe provision or management of intermediate care.
Excludes failures limited to downstream discharge, ambulance or admission processes where intermediate care is not itself the deficient system.
Excludes clinical treatment, staffing or environmental deficiencies that are not specifically part of the intermediate care arrangement.
Reports
2
Distinct published reports
Individual concerns
2
A report can raise multiple concerns
Date range
2016–2022
First to latest report issue date
Stated actions
9
Described in published responses
Reports over time
Reports over time
Reports about this concern issued each year.
* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.
Most frequent recipients
Most frequent recipients
Reports about this concern sent to each recipient.
Department of Health and Social Care1
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust1
Westgate House1
Ministerial department1
NHS trust1
Nursing home1
Concerns and responses across reports
Only concerns grouped under this recurring concern are included. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Concerns raised1
Delays in availability of additional intermediate care bed capacity
This report raised 2 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Responses linked to these concerns
Each statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
Actions described in response An action is something a respondent says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to the concern raised.9
Action
Optimise existing reablement capacity through a project with Prism and develop place-based collaboration, shared outcomes and coordinated hub arrangements.
Stated by Integrated Care Board (ICBStated in progressThe respondent said that this action was in progress when they made their response on 21 November 2022.
Action
Develop data to optimise intermediate-care productivity and inform the integrated-care-system strategy and future commissioning.
Stated by Integrated Care Board (ICBStated in progressThe respondent said that this action was in progress when they made their response on 21 November 2022.
Action
Commission community enablement services supporting up to 40 hospital discharges weekly.
Stated by Integrated Care Board (ICBStated completedThe respondent said that this action was complete when they made their response on 21 November 2022.
Action
Market-test additional regulated community enablement capacity to support 30 further weekly discharges.
Stated by Integrated Care Board (ICBStated in progressThe respondent said that this action was in progress when they made their response on 21 November 2022.
Action
Identify funding for an enhanced intermediate-care offer in community hospital beds.
Stated by Integrated Care Board (ICBStated completedThe respondent said that this action was complete when they made their response on 21 November 2022.
Action
Develop virtual wards delivering coordinated hospital-level care at home, including digital monitoring and intravenous treatment.
Stated by Integrated Care Board (ICBStated in progressThe respondent said that this action was in progress when they made their response on 21 November 2022.
Action
Train staff to identify suitable virtual-ward patients and increase occupancy of existing virtual-ward capacity.
Stated by Integrated Care Board (ICBStated in progressThe respondent said that this action was in progress when they made their response on 21 November 2022.
Action
Fund community beds, discharge lounges and ambulance hubs to reduce hospital flow and ambulance handover delays.
Stated by Department of Health and Social CareStated completedThe respondent said that this action was complete when they made their response on 21 November 2022.
Action
Make funding available to support adult social care, hospital discharge and timely transfer into community care.
Stated by Department of Health and Social CareStated in progressThe respondent said that this action was in progress when they made their response on 21 November 2022.
Manchester South
Concerns raised1
Inadequate planning and unclear management standards for intermediate care
This report raised 6 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Responses linked to these concerns
Each statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
No linked response statements
No respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
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Includes failures of an explicitly identified intermediate care arrangement or service affecting its safe provision or management, including unclear care standards, governance and management responsibilities, inadequate planning, bed or capacity availability, and related controls needed to provide appropriate intermediate care.
