NHS funded nursing care

[Spiro]

Mum has been awarded funded nursing care. Having searched online to find out more, I've discovered that there are two rates - standard and higher.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-funded-nursing-care-bands-increased-for-2015-to-2016

I asked the discharge co-ordinator which rate Mum would be awarded and she insisted that there is only one rate - the lower one?!

Does anyone know how the higher rate is awarded?

 

[jenniferpa]

Actually, in a way the co-ordinator is correct. When the system changed in 2007 from low, medium and high, people who were on the high rate kept the high rate, while everyone else went onto the standard rate. So the high rate is only for those people assessed as being high before 2007 who haven't subsequently been found to need CHC. The implication is that if you were high RNCC then you probably are eligible for CHC. I don't know if that's how it's worked in practice though. Anyway, yes for new assessments there is only standard RNCC or CHC - nothing between those two.

 

[Spiro]

Jennifer, Many thanks for explaining this.