Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 11 Issue 6

Guest Editorial

Jill Manthorpe

Intermediate Care: From Innovation to… Post‐Mortem?

Keith Wilson

To provide a controversial opening to this Special Issue, an expert casts a critical eye over the creation and implementation of the national policy for intermediate care.

Intermediate Care or Integrated Care: The Scottish Perspective on Support Provision for Older People

Alison Petch

Intermediate care has featured strongly in evolving strategy for support provision for older people in England. In Scotland the concept appears to have been rejected in favour of…

Intermediate Care: Its Place in a Whole‐Systems Approach

Sheena Asthana, Joyce Halliday

This paper considers intermediate care as part of a whole‐systems approach to care. It argues that this perspective allows a wider appreciation of the potential benefits of…

Promoting Flexibility in the Intermediate Care Workforce

Susan Nancarrow

This paper discusses the pressures on intermediate care services to provide a flexible approach to staffing, including a constantly changing policy context, winter pressures and…

Volunteers in Intermediate Care: Flexible Friends?

Jill Manthorpe, JoyAnn Andrews, Mieke Agelink, Sanne Zegers, Michelle Cornes, Melanie Smith, Roger Watson

Intermediate care services generally focus on health and social care organisations as the key commissioning and providing agencies. The private sector is an important contributor…

Home and Away: Home from Hospital, Progress and Prospects

Eileen Waddington, Melanie Henwood

Home from Hospital schemes run in the UK by the British Red Cross meet and match intermediate care policy's objectives. A review of 17 schemes undertaken in 1996 is compared with…

Continuing Health Care ‐ Where Now in the Continuum of Care?

John Dow

This special issue emphasises how the ‘whole system’ of care is becoming even more complex. With the pending implementation of the Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc) Act…

What's in a Name? (Part 2)

Peter Thistlethwaite