Many families have already worked through the funding process themselves, without the need for any assistance. Some are successful, but others are not so fortunate and find themselves frustrated by the NHS appeal process.
If you need assistance with an Appeal, we may be able to help! The first stage in the case of a living relative, is for us to assess their eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding through our Clinical Review Service.
If you proceed with our Clinical Review Service, we will send one of our experienced specialist nurses to meet both you and your relative to carry out an independent assessment of their care needs face-to-face, which will include a brief review of the care records on the day.
Following the assessment meeting, our nurse will consider whether it is necessary for us to apply for a full set of care records to be obtained and reviewed before producing a detailed report which we will send to you, setting out their assessment of you relative’s care needs. This report follows the same format as the Decision Support Tool (DST) used by the NHS when determining a patient’s eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding.
The report will help you to understand, whether in our view, there is any realistic prospect of arguing that your relative should potentially qualify for NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding, and therefore to continue to Appeal.
If our nurse’s report concludes that your relative may not qualify for funding at the moment, you will be able to use the report as a baseline and for comparison purposes, when monitoring important changes in your relative’s condition, in case they meet the funding criteria at any future reassessment. Furthermore, the report will also give you the reassurance of knowing that the matter has been assessed objectively by a skilled nurse who has a wealth of experience in this specialised field.
If, after the Clinical Review Service, our nurse believes that you have a strong case, we can help you with your Appeal and are able to offer various funding options depending on the circumstances (subject to terms and conditions).
For appeals on retrospective reclaims and for deceased patients, we will start by offering our Records Review Service rather than the Clinical Review Service, which will enable us to determine whether we consider there to be reasonable prospects of success before embarking on the appeal.
What Our Clients Say About Us
Case Study
Barry Pritchard is an ex-police officer from Salisbury. Without getting lawyers involved he says his father probably wouldn’t have received the NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding he was entitled to all along…
My father became ill with dementia and was gradually getting worse. At first, we arranged for some help from social services in his own home but it soon became clear that his needs were greater than the daily 15 minute visits allocated to him. One day my sister went round to his house only to find him injured on the floor. He had slipped and hurt himself quite badly.
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Head Office
1st Floor
1 Universal Square
Devonshire Street North
Manchester
M12 6JH
Tel: 0161 272 5222 / 0800 011 4136
Email: enquiries@farleydwek.com
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