Intermediate Tier Care Service
GP Care provide the GP’s for these services and the project is in collaboration with GP Care Services Limited, HMR CCG, BARDOC (Bury and Rochdale Doctors on Call), Big Life Group, The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Pennine Care Foundation Trust and Rochdale Borough Council.
The Intermediate Tier Service (ITS) is in place to reduce unnecessary admissions to hospital and ensure that people can leave hospital more quickly by making care more easily available in the community and people’s homes.
Who is it for?
The care units are for any patients who reside within the Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (HMR) area, or who are registered with a local GP based in HMR.
These referrals come in via local health and care professionals including local GPs, nursing and care homes, local hospitals and community health care providers either from hospital or from their own homes.
The Urgent Care Community Team work as part of the Intermediate Tier Service (ITS) who operate with three sites:
Wolstenholme Intermediate Care Unit
Level B, Rochdale Infirmary, Whitehall Street, Rochdale, OL12 0NB
Tudor Court
Seymour Street, Heywood, OL10 3BD
Virtual Beds
Within the community.
What Else Do They Provide?
- Community nursing and therapy services for adults
- Rehabilitation
- Supportive and complex care management
- Treatment room services
- Neuro rehabilitation
- Amputee and epilepsy services
- Stroke early supported discharge services and pulmonary rehabilitation
- Tissue viability
- Bladder and bowel – plus speech and language therapy
- Out of hours adult community nursing
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