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 patient being treated at South Shore Hospital for an upper respiratory condition, and who does not need a breathing tube might be treated in a new intermediate care unit that recently opened. "If I ...

Team composition for home-based intermediate care:- How effective and cost effective are different approaches, in terms of team structure and composition, to providing home-based intermediate care for ...

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 ...

Joanne Bernhaut, BSc, is clinical governance facilitator, Barnet Primary Care Trust;Kate Mackay, MD, FFPHM, is consultant in public health medicine, Enfield Primary Care Trust The development of ...

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, ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Ogle and colleagues developed a 30-year care model to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Thirty-day mortality among mechanically ventilated patients significantly differed based on rural vs. urban ...