How To Get The NHS To Pay For Care
If your relative is already receiving – or likely to need – full-time care, make sure they’re properly assessed for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding. This is NHS funding and it covers 100% of care fees. Our book, How To Get The NHS To Pay For Care, helps you apply for the funding – and fight your relative’s corner. It has been updated to reflect some of the more important changes to the revised NHS National Framework which came into effect on the 1st October 2018 and takes you step-by-step through the Continuing Care assessment process – including getting an assessment (or re-assessment) done, what to do and say (and what not to do and say) before, during and after an assessment, the many pitfalls to look out for and how to argue for higher assessment scores. It helps you hold the health and social care authorities to account, so you’re more likely to secure the funding.
Coping with everything when a relative needs care can feel bewildering. Add to that having to figure out who pays for that care and how to access funding, and it’s not surprising that stress levels rise even further.
This book shows you how to prepare for an NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment, how to argue your case for funding, what to say and do in assessment meetings – and, crucially, what NOT to say and do. It’s loaded with great tips about what happens IN PRACTICE – not just in theory – and how to fight back against NHS and local authority tactics that may wrongly prevent your relative accessing NHS funding to cover care fees.
“I have recently spent two years fighting with a CCG that was operating an aggressive CHC avoidance regime – my mother had severe dementia. After over one hundred letters and three meetings, I eventually proved at an Independent Review Panel that she was eligible for NHS funding. I have now had the opportunity to read this excellent book, which contains a wealth of useful information that would have been of enormous help in accelerating my learning curve, particularly in the early stages. Given the significant financial sums involved with CHC (I recovered £200,000 of retrospective funding for my mother’s care), this book represents a very good investment and I would thoroughly recommend it.”
Philip Mathias
Rear Admiral (Rtd)
