NHS continuing healthcare (NHS CHC), NHS funded nursing care and personal health budgets is an area of £2bn spend and covers health and social care needs for very vulnerable people.
CCGs will be legally responsible from 1 April 2013 for undertaking this assessment process which is prescribed by the Department of Health, underpinned by legislation and must be consistently applied throughout England.
NHS North of England has prepared a set of slides as part of an overall briefing pack for CCGs. The slides set out:
- An overview and why this is an issue for CCGs and CCG responsibilities
- An outline of the policy context
- An outline of what CCGs will inherit (individuals can ask for their cases to be looked at back to 2004)
- Whether there will be any policy changes after 2013
- Key performance issues (consistency in access is key to NHS CHC)
- What CCGs need to be able to deliver on NHS CHC from April2013
- Links to commissioning support, the NHS CB and local authorities
The work needed now to be legally compliant for April 2013
The pack also lists NHS CHC leads in each of the SHA areas.
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