Posted in NHS Continuing Healthcare on Feb 25, 2021.
What is NHS Continuing Healthcare funding, and can all people receiving care apply?
NHS Continuing Healthcare funding is funding from the NHS for somebody who has what is known as a primary healthcare need. Only people with a primary healthcare need are eligible. Not all people will be eligible, but anybody can apply, those who are definitely not going to be eligible can be screened out of the process using an NHS Continuing Healthcare checklist. If the checklist stage is passed, then the NHS carry out a full Decision Support Tool or ‘DST’ assessment and the NHS nurse assessors and social work...
Posted in Community Care, NHS Continuing Healthcare on Feb 04, 2021.
How is the current pandemic affecting CHC assessments? The fact is that it is having a significant impact as CHC teams are being redeployed within the NHS and this means that assessments are either further delayed or.....
Posted in NHS Continuing Healthcare on Mar 23, 2020.
Do you have questions about NHS Continuing Healthcare, funding, eligibility or disputes? Read on to see Sharon Lamerton of Care or Not answer some of your questions in our second Q&A instalment.
“NHS Continuing Healthcare funding is funding from the NHS for somebody who has what is known as a primary healthcare need. Only people with a primary healthcare need are eligible. Not all people will be eligible, but anybody can apply, those who are definitely not going to be eligible can be screened out of the proce...
Posted in Community Care on Mar 05, 2020.
Do you have questions regarding the care needs of a loved one? How to begin choosing a care home? Or how to safeguard your own future? Read on to see Sharon Lamerton of Care or Not answer some of your questions in our first Q&A instalment.
“One of the things you would want to know, is whether the home would be able to meet your relatives needs. Every person’s needs are different and there are different care homes available to meet those needs. There are care homes for people with dementia, care homes for people wi...
Posted in Community Care, NHS Continuing Healthcare on Feb 24, 2020.
A recent article for Plymouth Live details how a Plymouth councillor is campaigning for improved funding for dementia care.
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-calling-more-funding-dementia-3780586
Unfortunately, a lack of funding can result in individuals being unable to access the care that they require or families having to self-fund care.
This is a national problem, not isolated to Plymouth alone, however with more awareness and people supporting the change that is needed then perhaps we will see the re-form that the government has promised.
The council are trying...