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Continuing health care
— review, revision and restitution | | Author(s) | Melanie Henwood |
| Corporate Author | Melanie Henwood Associates; Department of Health - DH |
| Publisher | Electronic format only, 2004 |
| Pages | 90 pp |
| Source | Download summary document (6 pp) (31/1/05) Website: http://www.dh.gov.uk/publicationspolicyandguidance email: melanie@henwood-associates.co.uk |
| Keywords | National Health Service ; Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | Difficulties with continuing care have arisen, because the Coughlan judgment does not provide a clear distinction between NHS and social services responsibilities. Following the NHS Ombudsman's report, "NHS funding for long term care" (TSO, 2003; HC 399 2002/03) the Department of Health (DH) requested all strategic health authorities (SHAs) to establish an integrated set of eligibility criteria for NHS continuing care, and to undertake a process of retrospective review of cases where people may have been wrongly denied continuing care. The DH commissioned this review to explore local progress, which was conducted with 9 SHAs. It gives an overview of events that led to the problems identified; and considers the integration of eligibility criteria (including issues around training, assessment, and health and social care responsibilities). Improving the quality and consistency of assessment of people's needs has been the main focus for SHAs, and is examined in the section on investigation and restitution. The appendix comprises nine anonymised case studies providing a concise account of SHAs' continuing care eligibility criteria and the approach to restitution each has adopted. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050201503 E |
| Classmark | L4: LHB: KW: I: L: 4Q: 3A:6KC |
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