Intermediate Care Aggregate Data Collection

This aggregate Covid-19 Community Daily Discharge SitRep will continue temporarily. It will evolve into an Intermediate Care data collection which will provide better insight to support national, regional and Integrated Care Board (ICB) oversight of service delivery (in accordance with the Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan), at which point the aggregate SitRep will be discontinued.

These changes ensure the data collected are current and aligned with guidance published in the Intermediate Care framework.

The Community Daily Discharge SitRep will continue until provider systems have the capability to submit to the Health Care Operational Data Flow technical requirements, at which point their requirement to submit to the Community Daily Discharge SitRep will cease.

The Better Care Fund Planning Requirements 2023-25 set out the requirements for complete demand and capacity returns for intermediate care.

The data will be used for the following purposes:

• national policy and operational oversight
• regional operational oversight
• ICB level oversight of demand and capacity
• provider level as required

All organisations providing NHS and/or jointly commissioned non-specialist community bedded services for the purposes of rehabilitation, reablement and recovery, including those funded through the BCF. This includes all NHS and jointly commissioned community beds that could be provided by, these could include:

• community trusts
• community interest companies (CIC) and other providers of rehabilitation, reablement and recovery services within community-based beds
• acute trusts that also provide community services (reporting only their community hospital beds in this data collection)
• mental health trusts that also provide community services (reporting only their community hospital beds in this data collection)
• care homes where rehabilitation, reablement and recovery services are provided

In scope types of beds

The scope of this data collection includes all NHS, jointly commissioned and BCF funded beds used for intermediate care purposes. The following list of bed types is not exhaustive, noting that local terminology for intermediate care beds may vary:

• intermediate care
• Pathway 2 (P2)
• transition
• step-down
• step-up
• Discharge to Assess (D2A)
• rehabilitation
• community beds for short-term services such as stroke, neuro rehabilitation and spinal recovery where they are not part of specialist funded rehabilitation

Rehabilitation, reablement and recovery beds provided through specialised commissioning services should be excluded.

This will be an ongoing weekly collection.

9 April 2025: DPN updated as part of a regular review schedule.

12 February 2025: From March, the Instating of the Intermediate Care Beds Audit as a mandated collection has been added to the DPN to run alongside the Intermediate Care Aggregate Data Collection.