Reclaim Care Home Costs for Free- New MSE guide

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Dollar49 wrote: »

Thank you for that MM80. I thought that too, so I am assuming that they are going to say yes, as they want to know what has been paid and proof of payment. I have managed to obtain several cheque copies and statements from two helpful banks. Am waiting for the third one with the largest number of cheque transactions to get back to me about costs, hopefully not too much for me to pay out. At least, I feel I am progressing now.

That sounds like good news - I hope you've succeeded! Did you have a formal review hearing, or did they just concede?

Dollar49

The solicitor is dealing with it, and I hope I dont have to go to a hearing. Have been on with it for nearly 2 years now, so fingers crossed.

monkeyspanner

A review of NHS funded care home costs in Scotland has recommended that no funding should be provided in non-NHS facilities.
Article here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-27261095

More devolved NHS nonsense.

monkeyspanner

Continuing healthcare discussed with care minister Norman Lamb.
Listen here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042lgwk
It is about 38 minutes into the programme until the news at 60 minutes in.
This programme will be available to listen to until 14th May 2014

Dollar49

That is very interesting, thank you for pointing that out.... not just for me, but for friends in a similar situation...

MM80

[FONT=&quot]* sorry as a newbie I am not allowed to post links, which would have helped a bit.. - I'll send in a couple of times to increase my post - but keep my question readable..? ( hope this makes sense....? :-)


Thanks for the link of radio 5's piece - the section at approx 52.15 is interesting, and I've made a note of Norman's quote, to put forward as an argument if needs be.

I'd like someones opinion on our circumstances and our approach as explained below (I feel I'll get a quicker response or guidance from here than asking the professionals.... crux of the question is: should it only cost a maximum of £50.00 to get records under AHRA or can it be hundreds and hundreds of pounds....?):

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MM80

[FONT=&quot]My father in law had a fall in 2006 and after 6 weeks stay in NHS hospital - were directed to find a nursing home that catered for patients with dementia. He stayed in a nursing care home until he passed away in 2008, having paid for his costs the full duration.

Via solicitors we made our application prior to Sept 2012 deadline.

To date we have only go updates when we have prompted the solicitor's, to the usual tune of ;~ " NHS is very busy - looking into it - will take a long time. "

Just this last few months we have realised that our solicitors have not even determined whether care home records exist or not.

Since this the solicitors have not helped one bit in progressing, other than suggesting we still wait for care home records which may not even exist.

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MM80

[FONT=&quot]Frustrated we sent of a SAR/AHRA to both the Care Home and NHS in April.

I can't send link to what do they know website for my requests but you can see it under the following info:[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]To: NHS South London Commissioning Support Unit.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
Titled - procedures in place to deal with an AHRA


You can see how we have only just managed to get our AHRA request acknowledged by the NHS.


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MM80

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My solicitors tried to dissuade us by stating that under the AHRA, NHS could charge many hundreds of pounds to provide copies of these records.


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MM80

NHS FOI also advises:

[FONT=&quot] Nursing care homes are data controllers in their own right and NHS England can only supply information under our data controllership. Therefore, this information would have to be requested directly from that data controller. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) publishes a register of data controllers if you wish to search for specific nursing care homes to contact:-[/FONT] [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]http://ico.org.uk/what_we_cover/register_of_data_controllers[/FONT]