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Cash for care. Here at Just Caring Legal we are dedicated to fighting the postcode lottery in NHS Continuing Health Care. This is the funding that exists to meet the care costs of those with a “primary health need”. Some local health boards (known as CCGs) are three times more likely to grant NHS CHC than others. (See Just Caring Legal’s story in the South Shields Gazette on this). Even allowing for local...
Cash for care. Here at Just Caring Legal, a solicitor’s firm specialising in the recovery of care home fees, we are all too aware of the fragile state of the residential adult social care market. This leaves us to question, how much longer can families be squeezed to provide extra cash for care? It was confirmed in October 2016, in the State of Care report by the Care Quality Commission, the...
A battle for healthcare funding. “It has been a long, arduous, frustrating struggle. There are many others who are being unlawfully denied NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding, feel impotent in the face of intransigence from the health service and are in despair. Hopefully my victory will inspire them.” Don Keiller, a university lecturer, spoke to The Times after the NHS was forced to pay nearly £94,000 to his mother. His mother isa 90-year-old woman with dementia, who...
Listening to Money Box Live on BBC Radio 4 recently was tough for those of us concerned about the effect of the current care system on families living with dementia. We heard the story of Susannah, whose father is in the final stages of the condition. She and her brother had sold the family home. They split the proceeds between their disabled mum’s housing needs and their dad’s care fees. Now...