NHS Continuing Healthcare - about to join battle

monkeyspanner

Lets hope so but the statement on the resolution of the Equitable Life compensation has already been misleading as the treasury are still persuing Labours limited compensation proposal based on need rather than actual loss. But more importantly no-one has yet received any compensation after a decade of reports which laid the blame squarely in the laps of government regulatory bodies. So I don't expect CHC assessments to be resolved any time soon.

beaujolais-nouveau

monkeyspanner wrote: »

This level of incompetence can only be deliberate IMHO.

In this case, certainly. The person who is the author of the relevant NHS Somerset Operational Policy and the person who convened and chaired the internal review of my mother's needs are one and the same person. It is inconceivable, in my view, that you could fail to comply with the provisions of the policy that you yourself wrote, unless on purpose. (She is the named "author" on the front cover of the Operational Policy.)

monkeyspanner wrote: »

No doubt we will hear the cries of anguish if the Public Sector workers get hit in todays budget, but really any private sector company that acted like this would have failed long ago.

Yes.

I have worked all my adult life - in universities, charities and a few small businesses - and I cannot get my head around NHS Somerset staff using their position deliberately and remorselessly to cheat vulnerable elderly people out of their rightful entitlement.