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Rehabilitation in intermediate care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2004

Indrajit Chattopadhyay
Affiliation:
Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl, Denbighshire, UK.
Jolyon Meara
Affiliation:
Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl, Denbighshire, UK.

Extract

The Government’s National Health Service Plan followed by the English National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) has sparked widespread discussions, debates, research agendas, service developments and resource allocations surrounding ‘intermediate care’. In the UK there has been no universally accepted definition for the term. Different authorities have defined intermediate care in different ways.

Type
Rehabilitation
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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