Eligibility for Continuing NHS healthcare

Should CHC funding cover therapies/activities needed to prevent deterioration in challenging behaviour and meet psychological/emotional needs? For example, things such as sensory activity, swimming, sensory integration therapy, physio.

If money were no object, yes, prevention of deterioration of one’s health conditions or disabilities would make good sense. Meeting the needs is the key task, however, and money IS an issue for all publicly funded care planning. If failing to prevent deterioration was going to rob someone of a chunk of their wellbeing or […]

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R (on the application of Forge Care Homes Ltd. v Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Others (2017)

Keywords: Nursing Care, Funding, Integration, Joint working, FNC The Supreme Court ruled that the NHS is responsible for funding all aspects of the work done by registered nurses in social care settings. The case concerned an ongoing dispute in Wales between local authorities and the NHS about the basis on which the NHS pays for

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Funded Nursing Care

The Department of Health guidance and Workbook on Free Nursing Care envisages that people will be assessed by Health Authorities as needing one of three bands of registered nursing care in a nursing home. The bands translate into money, and the money goes to each home. The top band – worth £110 a week, from the NHS to the

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Ombudsman’s investigation – York City Council – 04/B/01280 (31/1/06)

This report concerned a complaint by the son of a female patient (S) detained under s.3 Mental Health Act 1983, that York City Council (York) was unable to guarantee the provision and funding of the aftercare needed by S.  As a result of York’s actions, S’s family found a place for her in a private

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(R) Grogan v Bexley NHS Care Trust & South East London Strategic Health Authority & Secretary of State for Health [2006] EWHC 44 (Admin) (QB)

The claimant (G) applied for judicial review of a decision of the defendant NHS Trust that she did not qualify for continuing NHS health care.  In assessing G’s entitlement the Trust had applied specific criteria contained in its continuing care policy, according to which a person could need continuing health care due to the nature,

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