Thanks, but I wasn't expecting you to offer any guidance, I was merely using my mum's example to illustrate that Jennifer is right in saying that the PCT/CCG CAN implement the new framework but does not HAVE TO. You will see in my earlier posting that mum is currently funding her own carers, but they are apparently too expensive for the PCT to fund, even though we only want a couple of hours a day and they must realise it would cost upwards of £1000 to put her in a nursing home!
They told us that Personal Health Budgets will not be available in her care until 2014, even though they already have the facility to offer her one, albeit not under the pilot scheme. I think this clearly demonstrates that the PCT is likely to drag its feet and not implement the revised NF until it has to.
CAN does not mean MUST or even SHOULD.
They told us that Personal Health Budgets will not be available in her care until 2014, even though they already have the facility to offer her one, albeit not under the pilot scheme. I think this clearly demonstrates that the PCT is likely to drag its feet and not implement the revised NF until it has to.
CAN does not mean MUST or even SHOULD.