Media coverage

One of the aims of ICUsteps is to highlight the fact that recovery from critical illness does not end on discharge from hospital. Even once they’re back in their own home, the ramifications of critical illness can mean that recovery can take up to a year or even longer. Most of the clinicians working with critically ill patients are well aware of the longer term effects but once the patient leaves the ICU the support they need to help them overcome these recognised issues is patchy to say the least. A survey in 2007 found that only 30% of intensive care units run follow-up clinics and the drop-in sessions run by ICUsteps in Milton Keynes are currently the only ones of their kind in the country.

Progress is being made in advancing care in this area and in 2009 the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) will be publishing a guideline on Critical Illness Rehabilitation. ICUsteps are registered as a stakeholder in this guideline and are represented on the guideline’s development group.

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Some of the media coverage we've received can be seen here.