TY - JOUR T1 - National pilot audit of intermediate care JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 146 LP - 149 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.11-2-146 VL - 11 IS - 2 AU - Tom Hutchinson AU - John Young AU - Duncan Forsyth Y1 - 2011/04/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/11/2/146.abstract N2 - The National Service Framework for Older People resulted in the widespread introduction of intermediate care (IC) services. However, although these services have shared common aims, there has been considerable diversity in their staffing, organisation and delivery. Concerns have been raised regarding the clinical governance of IC with a paucity of data to evaluate the effectiveness, quality and safety of these services. This paper presents the results of a national pilot audit of IC services focusing particularly on clinical governance issues. The results confirm these concerns and provide support for a larger scale national audit of IC services to monitor and improve care quality. ER -