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NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding: “How one family was left £50,000 out of pocket because of a seven-year care funding backlog”

NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding Sunday 10th November 2019 The Sunday Telegraph wrote an excellent article dealing with the failings of NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups, and inordinate delays encountered as more people are forced to appeal poor or wrong decisions when rejected for NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding. Statistics produced show an increasing numbers of cases decisions […]

November 14, 2019 by

Is The NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding System Fit For Purpose?

The problems encountered by the NHS in assessing Continuing Healthcare Funding were highlighted in the recent House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts (NHS continuing healthcare funding) Thirteenth Report of Session 2017-19, which said in summary: “NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) funding is intended to help some of the most vulnerable people in society, who have […]

October 8, 2019 by

Warning To Financial Advisors…

Here’s a warning to financial advisors. The NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding is a package of fully-funded care provided by the NHS and is FREE at the point of need.  It is payable regardless of wealth and is not means-tested. Therefore, if your relative has a ‘primary health need’ and meets the eligibility criteria for NHS […]

September 29, 2019 by

Daily Mail Dementia Campaign – 17th July 2019

If you did not read the Daily Mail on Wednesday 17th July 2019, it featured 8½ pages dedicated solely to promoting their new Dementia campaign – which attacks the Government’s lack of social care funding available to help Dementia sufferers. The Daily Mail’s campaign gave multiple heart rending accounts from relatives of Dementia sufferers, who […]

July 30, 2019 by

Falls At Hospital

Patients awaiting triage assessment at hospital, transfers, or ‘parked’ on a trolley waiting for a bed to become available contribute to the majority of falls at hospital. Most of these falls are unwitnessed – primarily due to the lack of staffing and close supervision. Staff may become distracted perhaps whilst attending to other patients or […]

July 22, 2019 by

“More older people dying from injuries caused by falls”

This headline came from The Telegraph on 2nd May 2019, where it stated that “More than 5,000 older people died due to a fall in 2017, marking a 70% increase on the numbers in 2010.” That is a staggering statistic.  Deaths from falls in a care home environment should be entirely avoidable with adequate monitoring, […]

May 29, 2019 by