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| Counting the real cost of continuing care | | Author(s) | Richard Bartholomew |
| Journal title | Professional Social Work, December 2008 |
| Pages | pp 20-21 |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Costs [care] ; Rights [elderly] ; Local Authority ; National Health Service. |
| Annotation | Research undertaken by the author on behalf of a local authority and a primary care trust (PCT) reveals the potential scale of the continuing social care costs if eligible learning disabled adults were to be given the sort of funding consideration that it is now widely accepted that older people people should receive. Examples of case law convinces the author that the law has not been fairly applied in respect of human rights issues in the way in which the National Health Service (NHS) permits the funding of care (e.g. the Coughlan judgment, Barbara Pointon, and Maureen Grogan). The author analysed the case files of 31 people with learning disabilities who had not received continuing health care (CHC) funding. 13 would have had a high likelihood of 100% NHS funding, 11 substantial likelihood of 100% funding, and 5 were unlikely to be eligible for 100% funding. He concludes that many service users with learning disabilities and their families are being forced to spend money on care, but that the local council and PCT concerned were making provision for payments to be made to services users if found to be eligible for CHC funding. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081218205 A |
| Classmark | E: QDC: IKR: PE: L4 |
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