Have social services said you need to top-up your relative’s care home fees? Find out why they may be acting unlawfully The number one enquiry we receive, here at Steene Law, is from people who want to know if a relative is eligible for NHS Continuing Health Care. However, during the course of a telephone […]
Continuing Health Care – the grim reality – Part two
In our last blog we explained why applying for Continuing Health Care is not an easy process. In the second of our two-part blog we examine what happens when you make an application for free Continuing Health Care funding and more importantly we tell you how you can “tip the scales” in your favour. If […]
Continuing Health Care – the grim reality – Part one
Spoiler alert – applying for Continuing Health Care is not an easy process. We believe it’s a national scandal that many thousands of elderly people who worked hard all their lives and paid their taxes, are not looked after in later life in their hour of need. Instead of automatically being looked after, free of […]
What should you do if you think you have wrongly been denied Continuing Health Care?
Spoiler Alert! Social services don’t always get their facts right and WRONGLY deny people free Continuing Health Care funding (CHC). Harry’s* story – how an elderly gentleman was WRONGLY refused CHC in his hour of need: (* The names of all family members have been changed to protect their identities) A lady got in touch […]