Continuing Care

(asked on 14th May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) his Department and (b) NHS England plans to undertake a review of the outcomes of decision support tool assessments to ensure that eligibility decisions made are lawful and in line with the provisions of the Care Act 2014 and the Coughlan and Grogan court judgments.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 22nd May 2018

NHS Continuing Healthcare eligibility decisions are taken following the completion of the NHS Continuing Healthcare Decision Support Tool by a multidisciplinary team, in accordance with the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care.

NHS England has assurance mechanisms in place to understand clinical commissioning group compliance with the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care. NHS Continuing Healthcare has been part of NHS England’s mainstream assurance processes since 2016/17 and is included in the Clinical Commissioning Group Improvement and Assessment Framework.

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