Intermediate Care
The Intermediate Care Data Collection was introduced on 29 July 2024, and was previously the Community Daily Discharge Sitrep. Amendments were made to ensure alignment with the Intermediate Care Framework and improve the insight available to systems, regions and nationally, to support demand and capacity planning and service improvements.
The Intermediate Care data collection has comparable data with the Community Daily Discharge Sitrep for criteria to reside and discharge pathways. However, the data for additional bed days and delay reasons is now for all patients, meaning that comparisons to the data from the Sitrep is not possible.
The published monthly data include:
- Daily numbers of patients:
- who no longer meet the requirements to remain (criteria to reside)
- who were discharged
- not discharged by the end of the day despite no longer meeting the requirements to remain (criteria to reside)
- who meet the criteria to reside and their clinical risk and rehab complexity
- in each of the three stages of receiving rehabilitation, reablement and recovery services
- Daily capacity and occupation levels across intermediate care beds
- A weekly average snapshot number of additional days in total patients have remained in hospital since the criteria to be discharged decision was made
- Weekly snapshot average of the total number of people per day who no longer meet the criteria to reside but were not discharged, broken down by the reasons why they continued to reside
- Weekly snapshot average number of people in intermediate care services, who have a length of stay within each of the following ranges: 0–6 days; 7–13 days; 14–20 days; 21–27 days; 28–34 days; 35–41 days; 42 days+
- Monthly total number of patients discharged by their intended discharge destination
The data collection collects data for all inpatients aged 18 and over in NHS and/or jointly commissioned non-specialist community bedded services for the purposes of rehabilitation, reablement and recovery, including those funded through the Better Care Fund (BCF). This includes all NHS and jointly commissioned community beds. Full details and guidance around beds in scope, is available in the published technical guidance.
Monthly Publication
August 2024: Intermediate care monthly data – August 2024 (Revised)
September 2024: Intermediate care monthly data – September2024
Monthly Timeseries from October 2022 onwards
Intermediate care timeseries data – October 2022 – September 2024
The weekly timeseries starts from w/c 29th July due to changes in the weekly questions that are not comparable with the previous weekly questions in the community discharge sitrep.
Notes:
Pre-release access list
Pre-release access list September 2024
Contact
For further information about the published statistics, please contact us at: england.nhsdata@nhs.net. All policy queries should be directed to england.intermediatecare@nhs.net
Other collections
(Discontinued) Discharge delays (community)
Weekly timeseries acute discharge delays data for the 2022/23 winter period
Please note the discharge delays (acute) monthly publication and weekly acute discharge delays timeseries figures are likely to differ as monthly publications data can be revised prior to publication where as weekly publications data do not undergo a revisions process.