Bournemouth Intermediate Care Service (BICS) is a Dorset Health University NHS Foundation Trust (DHUFT) operated service. Its objectives include avoiding hospital admissions, providing rehabilitation, ...

The NHS and social care sectors are experiencing unprecedented pressure due to increasing demand from people living longer, often with complex needs or impairments and 1 or more long-term conditions.

A new National Institutes of Health-supported study finds that patients receiving ventilator life support in the intermediate care units – a potentially less costly alternative for people not sick ...

I arrive at work at 7.45am and there is a panic from admin staff over bags of recycled waste not being removed from the kitchen, and a pile of unwashed cups left from the weekend. As the social work ...

Bournemouth Intermediate Care Service (BICS) have expressed shock and anger at the move by their employers to wreck a well-functioning public health care team. Thirteen local authority council ...

The adult care green paper’s key message on joint-working has already been taken up to reduce hospital admissions in Devon and help carers in Gloucestershire, writes Louise Tickle Change may be scary, ...

An NHS team have enjoyed exceptional results helping elderly patients to return to their own homes after stays in hospital. Shetland Intermediate Care’s success stories include enabling a 97-year-old ...

Father Miguel Angel Machorro, who was stabbed May 15 at the Mexico City Cathedral, left intensive care and was transferred to the Intermediate Care Area of Angeles Mocel Hospital in Mexico City, ...

Intermediate care services provide support for a short time to help you recover and increase your independence. This support is provided by a team of people who will work with you to achieve what you ...