Reclaim Care Home Costs for Free- New MSE guide

hellenjc wrote: »

I am a Social Worker working with Older People and have attended many Multi-Disciplinary meetings to assess for Continuing Health Care funding. Obviously I can only speak from my own experience but during a full assessment Social Services ( who are often, but not always, already involved) should be asked to do a Social Care assessment - different from a nursing assessment which will often be done by a District Nurse if the person is at home or by a nurse in hospital. Following completion of assessments the meeting itself should include family members, other professionals involved and the individual themselves if they are able to attend.
Each of the criteria will be gone through and everyone has the opportunity for input at this point and a "meeting " decision is taken.The meetings look at the nature, intensity, complexity or unpredictability of the individual’s needs when making a decision.
If their condition is very unstable and unpredictable CHC is more likely to be approved.
It is not unusual for there to be joint funding between Health and Social Care, where the person clearly has a health need but also social care needs and the decision is always reviewed regularly because as someone has already mentioned if the health need resolves then Continuing Health Care will often no longer fund.. However what I have also found is that if it is considered that the only reason the health need has lessened is because of the quality of the nursing care then they will often continue to fund if that argument can be made.
Also if the individual is turned down but their condition substantially deteriorates then a new nursing assessment checklist can be asked for.
I think you should definitely read the Decision Support Tool before any meetings and good practice would say this should be gone through with family members/carers before the meeting. I have certainly done this many times myself.. Don't be afraid to ask for this to be done.
Hope this helps a bit

Ps I'm not saying I agree with all this but just telling it as it is !

hannahjsmith wrote: »

Does anyone have a link to the one in Wales, I can't seem to find anything current. Thank you!