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Intermediate care: the shape of the team

Intermediate care: the shape of the team
Intermediate care: the shape of the team
There is increasing interest in intermediate care – an approach that seeks to link care for people moving between acute, primary and social care services. This paper asks whether a new type of health worker would better suited to the needs of patients within an intermediate care environment than the traditional roles of doctors, nurses and therapists. It examines the issues and attitudes towards intermediate care within and between professional groups, and argues that they can help to identify key factors in shaping an appropriately skilled team.
9781857172690
The King’s Fund
Vaughan, Barbara
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Steiner, Andrea
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Hanford, Lynda
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Vaughan, Barbara
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Steiner, Andrea
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Hanford, Lynda
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Vaughan, Barbara, Steiner, Andrea and Hanford, Lynda (1999) Intermediate care: the shape of the team , London, UK. The King’s Fund, 38pp.

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Abstract

There is increasing interest in intermediate care – an approach that seeks to link care for people moving between acute, primary and social care services. This paper asks whether a new type of health worker would better suited to the needs of patients within an intermediate care environment than the traditional roles of doctors, nurses and therapists. It examines the issues and attitudes towards intermediate care within and between professional groups, and argues that they can help to identify key factors in shaping an appropriately skilled team.

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Published date: February 1999

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Local EPrints ID: 33684
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33684
ISBN: 9781857172690
PURE UUID: 9907a259-6c6f-4f1a-9b19-a13df1b656a4

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Date deposited: 23 Jan 2008
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 11:33

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Author: Barbara Vaughan
Author: Andrea Steiner
Author: Lynda Hanford

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