SOCIAL services has given the go-ahead to an experimental project to help people get care while staying out of hospital.
The scheme to provide intermediate care beds at three council-run elderly people's homes in York has been endorsed for three months.
The project is part of an emphasis on treating people who need care without having to send them to hospital.
As well as taking pressure off hospital resources it allows people to be looked after in a less institutionalised environment.
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