The service aims to deliver high-quality, personalized bed-based intermediate care in Knowsley to support a home-first approach, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, and facilitate timely discharges, while providing intensive therapy to improve individuals' physical and mental well-being.
Bed Based Intermediate Care in Knowsley. The purpose of this service is to provide a high quality, personalised, bed based intermediate care service supporting the home first approach within the Borough of Knowsley
The purpose of this service is to provide a high quality, personalised, bed based intermediate care service supporting the home first approach within the Borough of Knowsley. The Service is to be provided in a care home registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide nursing care in an environment that meets the person’s needs and offers a safe and comfortable setting for the duration of the intervention required. Only those providers with a minimum CQC rating of requires improvement may apply and either be registered for under 65’s or be willing to vary your registration. The service aims to prevent unnecessary admissions to acute hospitals and premature admissions to long-term care, and to further support timely discharge from a hospital setting. Bed based intermediate care is designed to provide people with short term, intensive therapy support, to stabilise and improve their physical, mental, and functioning ability. This then enables people to move on to a less intensive reablement care intervention or back into independent living within the community. This contract falls under the light touch regime.