The Regulated Services (Service Providers and Responsible Individuals) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Local authority intermediate care service: exception from scope of care home services

4.  In regulation 2 (care home services), after paragraph (4) insert—

“(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(l) of this regulation—

“intermediate care” (“gofal canolraddol”) means the provision of accommodation, together with nursing or care, to an adult for a limited period for the purpose of promoting the adult’s ability to live independently in their own home by—

(a)

avoiding unnecessary admission to hospital,

(b)

minimising the duration of any admission to hospital by enabling timely discharge,

(c)

enabling recovery following discharge from hospital, or

(d)

preventing or delaying admission to a care home service;

“local authority intermediate care service” (“gwasanaeth gofal canolraddol awdurdod lleol”) means a service providing intermediate care—

(a)

which is provided by a local authority to an adult in accordance with its duties in Part 2 or 4 of the 2014 Act(1),

(b)

where the accommodation used for the purposes of the intermediate care is vested in the local authority, and

(c)

where any care and support is provided by a domiciliary support service the local authority is registered to provide.”

(1)

2014 anaw 4.