Continuing healthcare guidance from our experts
How to apply for NHS Continuing Healthcare
The process of applying for NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) can be confusing, so to help we’ve outlined the steps of the process below. NHS Continuing Healthcare funding is a package of care provided to meet the care costs for an individual, regardless of their setting, be it in a nursing home
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Is NHS Continuing Healthcare funding for life?
No, unfortunately, your eligibility for continuing healthcare funding will undergo regular reviews. After what is often a complex, drawn-out and stressful assessment the knowledge that continuing healthcare funding is successfully in place is often tempered by the unwelcome news that it will be revi
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Is there an upper care limit NHS Continuing Healthcare will cover?
NHS Continuing Healthcare funding pays 100% of the cost of care for eligible individuals. However, we’ve heard from families who have been told there was an upper care limit per week, leaving relatives to ‘top-up’ the outstanding amount to meet the care home weekly fee. This is incorrect a
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What’s the difference between healthcare and social care?
To receive NHS Continuing Healthcare funding – which covers the cost of an individual’s care in its entirety – the need for funding must be established primarily as a healthcare NOT a social care need. However, we have heard from our clients, and witnessed first-hand, how NHS continuing hea
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Alzheimer’s & continuing healthcare funding
We regularly speak with families battling to receive continuing healthcare funding for relatives in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease. So why doesn’t having Alzheimer’s automatically qualify you for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding? NHS Continuing Healthcare is a package of care
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5 key facts about Continuing Healthcare
Continuing healthcare funding, also known as CHC funding, is free healthcare provided by the NHS. The package of care is available to people aged 18 or over with significant ongoing healthcare needs, and it covers 100% of care costs. To be eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding, it must be e
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Do we need to sell Mum’s home to cover care fees?
Thousands of properties are sold each year to fund the ever rising cost of care fees. However, many of these family homes should not have been sold, as the individuals concerned may be eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare, a package of funding where the NHS covers all costs, including care home
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Can an advocate attend a DST assessment?
If you choose to have an advocate, such as a non-practising solicitor, represent you at an NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment this can be especially effective. Even just acting in a mediatory role as an advocate, a non-practising solicitor’s presence can ensure that the assessment guidelines
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Should your local council contribute to care home costs?
If your loved one is deemed ineligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding, then responsibility for their care home costs may fall to the local council. Unlike NHS Continuing Healthcare, the local authority can assess their financial situation to determine if they should contribute to care home co
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What is NHS-funded nursing care?
The NHS website defines NHS-funded nursing care as, “NHS-funded nursing care is when the NHS pays for the nursing care component of nursing home fees. The NHS pays a flat rate directly to the care home towards the cost of this nursing care.“ NHS-funded nursing care is paid at the same rate acros
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