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Everyone who receives full time care and who has health needs should be assessed for full NHS Continuing Healthcare funding. However, most people who need full time care are told they have to pay for their own care, and many people have a financial assessment done first by their local authority – to look at their […]
Stable and predictable needs in Continuing Healthcare We continue our two-part article about frequent mistakes made in Continuing Care assessments. In Part 1 we looked at how your relative may be wrongly given low scores in assessments because they are receiving care and their needs are being managed. However, it’s always the underlying need that […]
The founder of Care To Be Different, explains how her stubborn streak helped her secure fully-funded NHS care for her parents – and why she set up Care To Be Different as a result… “I was never a natural when it came to standing up to authority – until 2005 when both of my parents […]
In Continuing Healthcare well-managed needs are still needs When we’ve reviewed NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment notes for families, with a view to helping them appeal NHS decisions to deny funding, we notice many mistakes made by Continuing Healthcare assessors. Assessment errors stem from poor interpretation of Department of Health guidelines on the part of assessors, […]
Today’s article is a response to the recent announcement that, after September 2012, most elderly people in care in England will no longer have proper financial redress for wrongly charged care fees. I remember it vividly. Sitting at the bottom of the stairs just after Christmas 2007, I opened the letter. As I read it, […]
Continued from Part 1 The landmark Coughlan case at the Court of Appeal in 1999 brought care fees sharply into focus when Pamela Coughlan, paralysed after a road accident, successfully argued that it was illegal to force her to pay for care. Other Continuing Care cases, including that of Ross Bentley and also the Grogan […]
Continued from Part 3 Hidden government agenda Unsurprisingly, the new Continuing Healthcare deadlines coincide with the new and controversial Health and Social Care Act 2012, otherwise known as the NHS reforms in England. In April 2013 new Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) take over from Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), and a new National Commissioning Board […]
Today’s article is a response to the recent announcement that, after September 2012, most elderly people in care in England will no longer have proper financial redress for wrongly charged care fees. I remember it vividly. Sitting at the bottom of the stairs just after Christmas 2007, I opened the letter. As I read it, […]
Many people who are battling to obtain NHS Continuing Healthcare funding for an elderly relative in full-time care will find useful ammunition by exploring two of the well-known test cases – the Coughlan case and the Grogan case. We’ve pulled out some key arguments for you to make it easier. The Coughlan case The landmark […]
Have you been properly assessed for Continuing Care? One of the biggest scandals in elderly care is the number of people wrongly charged care fees. Tens of thousands of elderly people in the UK have been illegally forced to sell their homes and everything they own to pay for care that should be provided by […]
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