Can anybody help please. My dad is currently in hospital and the doctor gave him a discharge date of 20th January. On the 19th of January the hospital social worker had a meeting with me and mum and strongly suggested respite care. the care assessment was done the previous week in which the scoring was high enough to trigger a meeting for NHS continuous funding. We had a meeting with the doctor round about the 15 th of January who said it would be practically impossible for her to continue to look after him at home and suggested he moved to residential care. During the meeting with the social worker she told us he needed EMI nursing care and gave me a list of all homes that offered EMI so his needs would be met. I duly started to phone homes with a view to looking at them. However the social worker is now putting extreme pressure on mum telling her the hospital was pressuring her to move him out. During the first meeting she told us that she would organise a meeting to see if we qualified for continuous care. However yesterday she phoned mum and told her he no longer needed EMi care and standard nursing is all he required. She then told mum that she had found him a home and they were going out to assess him. My mum told her not to bother as the inspectors report was "requires improvement" in all categories. She told her also that as she has more than £25000 she would have to pay for it herself. My mum asked about the meeting to see if he qualified and she said that could take months but you will have to fund it yourself anyway. My question is, is this because respite care is different rules than permanent residential care and is she trying to fob us off by strongly suggesting respite care in order to stop any meeting regarding funding. I did read a thread way months ago regarding funding and different rules applying for respite care which is why I am getting the feeling she is fobbing us off. Can anybody help please. Thankyou