Intermediate Care Service (ICS)

The Intermediate Care Service is a multi-disciplinary team operated jointly between Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and Walsall Adult Social Care.

It provides intensive help to patients and their relatives, or carer if they have one, for a short period of time so that they can leave hospital as soon as their health has improved sufficiently.

The team offers support to help the patient regain independence. This could be at home, or in a short-stay care home bed, in the best way to meet their needs. It is often after a period of crisis, ill health, disability, or at a time when they may have lost some confidence.

The team is made up of:

• Social workers
• Mental health and general adult nurses
• Reablement support workers
• Discharge coordinators
• Physiotherapists
• Occupational therapists
• Homecare workers