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 […]
Practical support for carers is a central aim behind the health and community care reforms. It might take the form of help with the nursing and personal care of the client, physical help, respite services, counselling, co-ordination of services, practical help, financial help in extreme cases, supervision, help with medicines etc, or even child care.
Carers’ Rights pre Care Act Read More »
Joint working – local authority asking itself for help – s27 Children Act 1989 Section 27 Children Act 1989 (which empowers a social services authority to ask ‘any authority or other person’ for help) only applies as between different local authorities. S 27 therefore did not apply to a request from a local social services
Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, ex p B [1993] 2 FLR 605 (QBD) Read More »
R (M & A) v Islington LBC (2016) Keywords: Co-operation; Housing interface Two similar cases were joined. Each concerned the housing situation of a severely autistic child. In each case the children lived with their mothers in flats rented from the defendant local authority. Occupational therapy reports had concluded that the accommodation was unsafe for
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This case examined whether and to what extent a local authority and health authority were both liable to the patient for the future costs of her care, when she had been left gravely handicapped as a result of the negligence of a health authority, but where the local authority also had a statutory obligation under
Nursing care – community care services – joint working The NHS did not have sole responsibility for nursing care. A patient may be provided by a local authority with nursing care as a social service and may be liable to meet the cost of that care according to the patient’s means. It was not necessarily