The King's Fund Rehabilitation Development Programme ended in early September 2002. The final programme publication, Developing Intermediate Care: A guide for health and social service professionals, was launched in October 2002 at the ADSS Conference in Cardiff and is available at the King's Fund's Information and library service.

• Rehabilitation Briefing Paper 1: Rehabilitation in the policy context. Update to rehabilitation for older people-the emerging policy agenda 1999 (52kb)
  Aims to identify the various emerging policies, showing where rehabilitation for older people fits within the many policy initiatives, and how these are inter-linked.
  (Linda Hanford, Lorna Easterbrook and Jan Stevenson, 1999)
• Briefing Paper 2: Comprehensive assessment of older people (50kb)
  Explores the important role of comprehensive assessment in recognising the need for and organising often complex care regimes for individual older people.
  (Jan Stevenson, 1999)
• Rehabilitation Briefing Paper 3 (First published in Managing Community Care, 7:4 36-44. (1999)) (42kb)
  Outlines the case for investing in more and better rehabilitation services, and describes examples of service models and settings.
  (Janice Robinson and Jan Stevenson, 1999)
• Rehabilitation Briefing Paper 4: Involving older people in health developments (100kb)
  There is a growing emphasis to seek the views of the general public on health services. This paper pulls together a range of issues and lessons learned from the literature on user involvement. It should help agencies to develop a strategy and plan for consulting the public, giving examples of a variety of methods to use – each with its own characteristics, strengths and weaknesses.
  (Jan Stevenson, 1999)
• Rehabilitation Briefing Paper 5: NHS responsibilities for meeting continuing health care needs for people who live in nursing or residential care. (66kb)
  Summarises the current guidance on the responsibility of the NHS for meeting the continuing health care needs of the above group and outlines the possible service contributions of different clinical professionals to long-term care home residents. The author also discusses the benefits of implementing the guidance for staff and residents, and flags the importance of comprehensive assessment and review.
  (Jan Stevenson, 2000)
  
• Rehabilitation Briefing Paper 6: Rehabilitation in rapid response services: maximising opportunities for older people. (131kb)
  Captures the reflections of people working in, and managing rapid response services, drawing on information shared at a workshop held by the Rehabilitation Programme Team in February 2000.
  (Linda Spencer, 2000)
  
• Rehabilitation Briefing Paper 7: The NHS plan and rehabilitation opportunities for older people (25kb)
  Examines the implications of the NHS Plan for rehabilitation and intermediate care. The author highlights specific paragraphs in the text of the Plan that are relevant to rehabilitation and intermediate care. The paper also refers to important issues that need to be addressed in taking the Plan forward.
  (Jan Stevenson, 2000)
• Mapping Local Rehabilitation and Intermediate Care Services: A whole-systems approach to understanding service capacity and planning change (531kb)
  Offers guidance on mapping intermediate care and rehabilitation provision as the first step towards providing a range of integrated services for older people.
  (Jan Stevenson, 2001)
• Seeking the Views of Local People on Health and Social Care Services for Older People in Trafford South (1343kb)
  As the government requires primary care groups to take account of local views when commissioning services, many agencies are now considering how to involve local people in service planning. This paper describes how Trafford South PCG asked local people to consider the whole system of health and social care for older people, and the way the PCG planned and ran a two-day consultation event.
  (Jan Stevenson, Debra Blake, Peter Binns and Jonathan Berry, 2000)

• Intermediate Care Co-ordination
  
• Mapping Local Rehabilitation and Intermediate Care Services
  
• Intermediate Care: Approaches to evaluation
  

• Intermediate care links

• Intermediate Care (Briefing)