Written questions

Continuing Care: Finance

Commons · Question 40871 · Tabled 24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 31 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Julia Buckley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there are mandatory timescales for (a) nursing homes requesting an assessment for (i) continuing healthcare funding and (ii) funded nursing care and a checklist referral being completed and

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 31 Mar 2025

The statutory guidance, National framework for NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care, sets out the principles and processes for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and National Health Service-funded nursing care (FNC), so that people are asses...