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After waiting for months and months to get the nursing records for my mother (regarding CC). my solicitor has had a report compiled from these records which has been submitted to the county council responsible for my late mother's care. We have received a reply stating that it has been given to 'Nurse Assessors' for consideration. Should we demand now that someone more senior make this …

Hi all,

I appear to have posted this in the wrong place last night so i have re posted it.

I am sad to say that on Friday at 5 oclock after a long hard battle with Alzheimers and cancer my mother passed away in the care home.

My sister and I never left her side day and night (the home were fantastic) and she finally gave up her fight.

At the moment i am battle worn and weary and VERY bitter …

The NHS have a statutory duty under the NHS Act to provide care 'free at the point of need regardless of the ability to pay'. They avoid doing so by substituting their own 'criteria' to determine who is and is not entitled to receive the NHS care which is the statutory right of every resident British citizen. Action is needed to compel them to obey the law and to gain restitution for all those …

Before I break the good news,

what you are about to read is that I fought the battle differently, Due to our mother's constant wandering, crying on a daily basis ,behaviour problems, Falls and being moved from one home to another due to previous care/ Nursing homes not WANTING to meet her care needs, As the Medication did not have the desired effect that they Desired I,e. EASY MANAGEMENT TO BE …

Sorry if this has been asked before but I cannot find it in the forum, If a patient leaves hospital and is transferred directly into a "Care home" (No contract has be signed or agreed) should the patient be automatically accessed for CHC by the local PCT or has this to be requested by a relative (The patient has be deemed to lack capacity),

Thanks

Where is it laid down that social services MUST challenge the NHS over any patient turned down for FFCC and who passed to them? Is there such a direction? Is it somewhere in CRAG or elsewhere?

I need an actual point of law or something that is written down that they must abide by and by written down I mean from an authorised source or point of reference.

many thanks

The National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care
July 2009 (revised)
[url=http://www.dh.gov.uk/dr_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_103161.pdf]http://www.dh.gov.uk/dr_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_103161.pdf[/url]

NHS Continuing Healthcare checklist 2009:
[url=http://www.dh.gov.uk/dr_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_103328.pdf]http://www.dh.gov.uk/dr_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_103328.pdf[/url]

Decision Support Tool (DST) 2009 for NHS Continuing Healthcare:
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After being told in the DST meeting last month that they had decided that my mum should have been funded since October 2010 (although we were told that it was a borderline decision), I recieved a letter yesterday stating that the panel had decided that she didn't meet the criteria and was not eligible for CHC.

So disappointed!

We will carry on with the appeal process but had built our hopes

Having originally told me they were going to investigate my mother's case, The Ombudsman has now done an about turn and told me they are not going to investigate any of it.

They told me that they had employed their own clinical nurse assessor to check if the NF guidelines had been adhered to. This person said those guidelines were adhered to - and despite 11 pages of hard evidence submitted to …