Continuing Care

(asked on 25th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he publish the number of applications for Continuing Healthcare in (a) England and (b) Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group area that were successful at (i) first review and (ii) on appeal in each year since 2017-18.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 10th March 2021

Data on NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) eligibility rates is published quarterly by NHS England at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/nhs-chc-fnc/

Data on the number of people who apply and are found ineligible at the initial checklist assessment stage for CHC is not currently collected. NHS England will collect and manage CHC checklist data as part of an upcoming patient level data set. Data on the CHC referral conversion rate is available since 2017-18. However, as the 2019-20 data has been significantly impacted by COVID-19 we do not consider there to be sufficient data points to undertake meaningful trend analysis.

We have interpreted ‘first review’ to mean how many people are found to be eligible following a review at the local resolution stage. Prior to 2018-19 this data was not collected. We have interpreted ‘on appeal’ to mean how many people are found to be eligible in full or partially following a request for an independent review. Data on the number of people found to be partially or fully eligible in England and Herts Valley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is shown in the following tables:

England

Financial Year

Number found partially eligible

Number found fully eligible

2017-18

51

90

2018-19

94

100

2019-20

196

222

Herts Valley CCG

Financial Year

Number found partially eligible

Number found fully eligible

2017-18

1

1

2018-19

2

2

2019-20

6

5

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