NHS Continuing Healthcare: Important!

[Clementine]

We had our meeting with the assessment team about Mum possibly being eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare.

While they welcomed our input, the whole decision process has to be evidenced, therefore they really study the care plan, care sheets which have to be provided by the care/nursing home or the care team.
It is really important that everything is documented. While Mum's nursing home is excellent in writing everything down, they were "reprimanded" that they had not mentioned in writing the way they have to medicate her (in her case: covert).

So I think the more thorough the careteam is in noting everything down, every incident etc. the more chance you have. Our experiences with Mum when visiting her were listened to but not taken onboard at all.

 

[bets daughter]

Hi Clementine , very intersting and this will be helpful to us all thankyou , i hope it gets approved for your loved one kind regards Margaret x

 

[handyjack]

We had a CHC inspection recently and the person doing the inspection had asked some members of staff about the showering and bathing of residents. Everyone told her they wore gloves whilst doing this. She said the carers shouldn't wear gloves. Until someone called the Infection Control team at the local hospital and they said it was best practice to wear gloves whilst bathing residents, because of the risk of cross contamination. (bearing in mind some of the residents are double incontinent).
So you see, even CHC can get things wrong.