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People receiving NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) who do not die “as quickly as expected” are at increasing risk of having their funding withdrawn, even if they remain profoundly ill and their needs are unchanged. This is according to a recent investigation by the charity Age UK, which looked at the statistics around Fast Track NHS CHC Funding. The Fast Track Pathway is designed to allow NHS CHC to...
A family that spent six years battling to obtain NHS Continuing Healthcare funding for their vulnerable mother finally won after a completely separate and Independent Review of their case. They received tens of thousands of pounds of wrongly paid care fees as well as a long-overdue apology. After what they described to the Telegraph newspaper as a “gruelling ordeal”, the family also received a four-figure compensation payment from...
A flurry of letters to the Guardian newspaper last month has shed new, much needed light on the opaque NHS Continuing Healthcare system. Several correspondents shared their experiences of navigating a “complex” and “cruel” system designed to ration NHS funds, leading many to have to seek expert help as their relative’s health deteriorates. Dr Michael Duxbury, who has tried to access the funding for his 91-year-old Mum, wrote...
By Rosalind Hughes, founder, Just Caring Legal Make no mistake: applying for NHS Continuing Healthcare can be daunting. The process is full of technicalities, jargon and complexity. Those holding the purse strings can be obstructive or hard to get hold of. They may make decisions without consulting you, or deliberately ignore or downplay your testimony. In fact, the whole thing is so dysfunctional that a campaign is currently underway to seek judicial...
Just Caring Legal has sent an open letter to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) across England to challenge what we believe to be widespread abuse of the eligibility process for NHS Continuing Healthcare. The letter is published below. People all over the country have been getting in touch to tell us that they have been effectively shut out of their NHS Continuing Healthcare eligibility assessments. They say NHS CHC...
Just Caring Legal has won an appeal for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding on behalf of a Northumberland family after exposing a catalogue of flaws in the assessment process. “We won our appeal five months after the death of my wonderful, kind, gentle father in law,” the client said. “Ros was a lifeline. Her support through this process was fantastic.” Family told relative would have to pay for care...
Now THIS is the TV expose of what is regularly reported as ”the scandal” of NHS Continuing Healthcare we have been waiting for. We were pleased to see BBC’s Panorama delving into the care crisis last week. The programme showed that many local authorities are failing to meet even their statutory duties on social care. But while it did refer to NHS Continuing Healthcare funding, it didn’t go far...
Here at Just Caring Legal, we have been following closely the campaign by former Rear Admiral Phillip Mathias to raise awareness of the problems surrounding NHS Continuing Healthcare. His open letter to Government Ministers was eloquent and moving in its description of his own two-year battle for the NHS care funding his mother was entitled to. He called NHS CHC “possibly one of the biggest financial scandals in the history...
It was so good to see BBC’s Panorama’s shining a light on the terrible things going on in the UK care system recently. The two part series exposed the true extent of the crisis in care funding. We met vulnerable people forced into selling their homes to pay for care. Families battling a confusing and inadequate funding system. And several people who just didn’t know where to turn...