Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all eligibility decisions for continuing healthcare funding are made within 28 days.

NHS England has assurance mechanisms in place to hold all non-compliant clinical commissioning groups to account in relation to NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments and the application of the NHS Continuing Healthcare National Framework.

From April 2017, Quality Premium payments to clinical commissioning groups have been linked to compliance to the NHS Continuing Healthcare National Framework, with a ‘Best Practice Standard’ of 80% of NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments to be completed within 28 days.