The Intermediate Care Service is available in the Halton Borough. Halton Borough Council is the lead organisation, working with Bridgewater Community NHS Trust, Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and others. People are served in their own homes, care homes, acute hospitals, and intermediate care/rehabilitation beds. This is done collaboratively across organisations and with primary, community, and secondary care services.

The service is multidisciplinary and multi-organisational in nature. Nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietetics, care and support staff are among the professions employed by the service. In some cases, doctors (general practitioners and consultants) are involved. The service assists people at critical junctures in their health and well-being.

The service is intended to stabilise deterioration in physical and emotional functioning, restore wellbeing, and aid in disability adaptation. It provides coordinated treatment, rehabilitation, care and support for people in transition to prevent long-term disability/altered functioning.

It aims to improve care coordination, resource utilization/cost reduction, health improvement for service users and informal caregivers, and care quality. The practise describes the lack of cohesion between health and social care for service users with complex problems from an organisational standpoint. The service is intended to stabilise deterioration in physical and emotional functioning, restore well-being, and aid in disability adaptation. This should reduce the length of stay in an acute hospital as well as the reliance on and use of long-term domiciliary and care home services.