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Posted on July 7, 2020
Reclaiming Care Home Fees

Do you have to pay care home fees? Is state funding available for care home fees in the UK? People often assume that if they ever need to go into a care home the care home fees will be paid by the state. However, in practice it doesn't always work that way. People are frequently required to pay their care home fees themselves. Furthermore, if they own property then the value of the family home will be taken into consideration when the...

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Posted on August 13, 2019
Reclaiming Care Home Fees

Can I make a Continuing Healthcare claim? Find out if you are entitled to a refund by completing our special questionnaire. In order to review the merits of your Continuing Healthcare claim we have devised a special questionnaire. If you complete the questionnaire and email it back to us we will assess your case completely free of charge. We will tell you if we think the claim has good prospects of success and will let you know what funding options are available.   The Slee Blackwell Continuing Healthcare Claim Questionnaire To...

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Posted on April 30, 2019
Reclaiming Care Home Fees

We specialise in claiming care home fees where funding has been wrongly refused. In this article we look at what is involved in making a claim for care home fees.   What is NHS Continuing Healthcare? Continuing Healthcare (or CHC) is care funded by the NHS to people with complex healthcare needs who are not being looked after in hospital. CHC is usually delivered in a care home setting, but can also be provided by a hospice or in a patient's own home.  Eligibility for Continuing Healthcare To be...

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Posted on October 23, 2018
Reclaiming Care Home Fees

We operate a free Continuing Healthcare legal helpline. Here are some FAQs about NHS Continuing Healthcare, but for more detailed guidance give our helpline a call or complete our dedicated Continuing Healthcare Questionnaire.   What is NHS Continuing Healthcare? NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) funding is a package of continuing care provided outside of a hospital arranged and funded solely by the NHS. It can apply to care in a care home, hospice or in the patient's home. It is care provided over an extended...

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Posted on March 12, 2018
Reclaiming Care Home Fees

As specialist Continuing Healthcare funding solicitors we were interested to read a new report aimed at making the system more efficient NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) is a package of care that is funded by the NHS for individuals who have a ‘primary health need’. CHC accounts for 4.9% of the total NHS budget and according to the NHS Clinical Commissioners, there was a 16% increase in spending on CHC between 2013-14 and 2015-16. CHC related appeals and complaints also create a strain on resources, with each...

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Posted on April 5, 2017
Reclaiming Care Home Fees

Care home fee recovery solicitor, Charlotte Mitchell, reports on a successful Continuing Healthcare Funding appeal Our care home fee recovery team have successfully obtained a reimbursement of over £12,000 in wrongly paid care home fees on behalf of a patient who was incorrectly refused NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding (CHC). The patient (who we cannot name for confidentiality reasons) had dementia and sadly passed away whilst the CHC application was on-going. Initially Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group refused to grant CHC, despite a positive assessment. The...

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Posted on January 25, 2017
Reclaiming Care Home Fees

Here is our 10 point guide to Continuing Healthcare and how to reclaim care home fees. There continues to be a great deal of uncertainty about care home fees and the way NHS Continuing Healthcare funding works. Matters are made worse by the fact that NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments are frequently carried out incorrectly. This leads to people being wrongly charged for care, some losing their entire life savings as a result. Families going through the NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment process...

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Posted on November 22, 2016
Reclaiming Care Home Fees

Have you got a relative who is going into a care home? If so, they may be entitled to free care home funding. Our lawyers often hear people say ‘the care home funding system is so unfair.’ We empathise with them. Not only does the system feel unfair, it is also complex and confusing at a time when what is most required is transparency and support. If you have a loved one who is going into a care home or who...

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Posted on August 31, 2016
Reclaiming Care Home Fees

Reclaiming care home costs can be done on a DIY basis, so strictly speaking there is no need to use the services of a specialist firm of solicitors like ourselves or indeed a claims handler. However, the process of recovering care home costs can be a complex one. It’s not as simple as claiming PPI for instance. The down-side to using a specialist solicitor is the legal fees that will be incurred, but we would hope the outcome will justify the...

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Posted on June 15, 2011
Reclaiming Care Home Fees

We take a brief look at who is eligible for Continuing Healthcare and answer some frequently asked questions Can I Claim the Costs of my Care? If you have long term care needs, whether you are living in your own home or in a residential care home, you often require a mix of services provided by the local authority Social Services department and/or the National Health Service. NHS continuing health care is a package of care that can be arranged and funded by the NHS...

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