Retrospective Reclaims Service

Reclaim wrongly paid care fees

Did you know you can reclaim care fees retrospectively, going back as far as April 2012?

Many people have paid thousands of pounds for care before ever finding out about CHC funding. Assessments may have been completed without their knowledge or involvement, or simply never carried out at all.

In many cases, we act for families whose relatives have passed away. They have often used their life savings or sold their home to fund their care, unnecessarily and unfairly. Thankfully, it is possible to recover these costs retrospectively.

Successful retrospective claims depend on the presentation and analysis of a huge amount of information, from historical care and medical records. Because the process is time-consuming and laborious, instructing a professional to assist you can be invaluable.

Our approach…

The main steps involved in our Retrospective Reclaims Service:

Our team of experts will obtain necessary care and medical records for the enquiry period and conduct a screening exercise to determine the merits of the claim
If we believe your relative may have been eligible for CHC funding for all or part of the period, we will offer to pursue this on a “no win no fee” basis. You only pay us if we are successful
We deal with all aspects of the assessment and appeal process
If CHC funding is awarded retrospectively, we will calculate the reimbursement owing, including interest payments, and negotiate a settlement with the ICB to ensure the maximum entitlement is refunded

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People often miss out on funding in many circumstances, including:

Being discharged from hospital straight into a care home
Those who were subject to assessment and found not eligible, but never reassessed as their condition worsened
Those who received Funded Nursing Care (which pays for the nursing element of their care), but were never assessed for CHC funding
More affluent patients who assumed they would have to pay. NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding is not means-tested: if you qualify, all your care is funded by the NHS

If a relative of yours is going into a care home or nursing home, I’d 100% recommend you to call Farley Dwek to see if you are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding.

Peter Shaw

My sister and I have received absolutely first class professional support, guidance and advice throughout an extended period of time, seeking CHC on behalf of our mother. Every member of the team, with whom we had various communications with, were professional, courteous, and clear. The process is a challenging one and without their guidance, support and expert knowledge we would not have achieved the successful outcome that we did. We cannot recommend them enough.

CHC client

From first contact with the managing partner Andrew Farley and Ruth Pople, Senior Case Manager , Farley Dwek appeared to be a very well organised Law firm. The staff is very professional and takes all the time to explain sometimes complicated situations.

CHC client

Through out my dealings with Farley Dwek I found them to be efficient and very helpful. But above all their honesty impressed me the most. Never have come across an organisation that would put ethics before profit. For this alone I would highly recommend them.

Tim

Andrew had a high degree of expertise in this field and was able to offer practical advice on how best to prepare an evidenced based case. He was also able to identify areas where the framework had been incorrectly applied. With this expert knowledge and guidance, we were successful in our appeal and the original recommendation of the DST was overturned. Our mother was awarded full CHC funding, backdated with payments refunded. The best £300 we ever spent!

Jane

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