Patients who have experienced critical illness can often suffer a sequelae of problems once they are discharged from intensive care back to the ward environment and after discharge home. This group’s focus is to try and offset some of these effects by promoting early rehabilitation in the critical care environment and supporting patients in a follow up clinic after discharge from hospital.

Patient diaries is a first step in this; by completing these with information on the patient’s progress it is a first step for them in understanding how ill they have been.

Please see below for information on Life After Critical Illness published by The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM), PICUPS tool for assessment of patient’s rehabilitation needs and NICE guidance