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Intermediate Care

Intermediate Care is widely acknowledged as a proposed solution to some of the problems of today’s emergency pressures on health services, as well as providing increased opportunities for service users to access a service that will focus on them reaching their potential for independence. 

Rhondda Cynon Taff Community Care Department has therefore developed a range of Intermediate (Social) Care services that will offer people realistic alternatives to unnecessary hospital admissions and also short-term support to regain skills in carrying out daily living activities following illness or injury. 

Our service responses include time limited residential (not nursing) care placements to either prevent an avoidable hospital admission, or facilitate a quicker hospital discharge; a Sheltered Housing scheme, where a person may be temporarily offered more suitable accommodation to enable them to recover or return to their own home and a Community Reabilitation Service that will enable a person to return to as independent a lifestyle as possible within their community. 

At the current time, Intermediate Care Services are provided and managed by the local authority, but there is every intention that, as demand is identified, our partner agencies will contribute to this range of service options and multi agency working via a single point of access will develop. 

For further information, please ring Sue Williams, Intermediate Care and Health Liaison Commissioning Manager, on 01443 442992.