Services to support your recovery after you leave hospital

Services to support your recovery after you leave hospital

The Early Intervention Community Team (EICT) supports you after you have left hospital.

You will receive a short-term service for up to 42 days if you are:

  • 17 years old or above
  • live within Birmingham and have a Birmingham GP
  • Medically fit for discharge

We bring together the expertise of different organisations and services including Birmingham City Council’s Adult Social Care and NHS Birmingham Community Healthcare to enable people to live safely, and independently at home, and to achieve their goals.

A team of health and social care professionals will visit you at home to plan how we can help you to be as safe and independent as possible at home. You can include your family, friends and carers to support you during this visit, if you wish.

The quick discharge service is a care provider that will help you to get home safely. You will then be transferred to a different short-term provider within a few days.

The service that you will receive will also be based on the goals that are identified in order to promote your independence and improve your quality of life.

If you decide that you would like to plan and arrange your own care and support, we will provide you with information on how to do this and associated costs.

If our assessments show that you are eligible, you will be moved to a long-term support provider.

Early ending of short-term service

You must engage with us in a timely manner to ensure that your care and support needs are planned as early as possible. We may contact you or your representative to ensure this happens. If we are unable to contact you, or have evidence of unreasonable behaviour, we will stop providing the service.

Get information in a different language or format

If you need support information in a different language or format, call or write to us, or speak to the EICT when they visit you.

Telephone number: North Hub - 0121 303 5444, South Hub – 0121 303 8920

East Hub- 0121 303 8930, West Hub - 0121 303 8273, Central Hub - 0121 303 8930

Email: eict.north@nhs.net, eict.south@nhs.net, eict.east@nhs.net, eict.west@nhs.net, eict.central@nhs.net

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