Continuing Care: Fees and Charges
(asked on 12th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Continuing Healthcare claims for repayment of fees paid were outstanding in each of the last 12 months.
Payment for an NHS Continuing Healthcare ‘previously unassessed period of care’ is only made for cases assessed as eligible.
As described in a public letter from the former NHS Chief Executive Sir David Nicholson, dated 15 March 2012, deadlines were introduced for requests for an assessment for a NHS Continuing Healthcare ‘previously unassessed period of care’ between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2012.
The number of requests for a NHS Continuing Healthcare ‘previously unassessed period of care’ between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2012 that were outstanding at the end of the previous 12 months are as follows:
Month | Requests outstanding |
September 2017 | 0 |
August 2017 | 0 |
July 2017 | 0 |
June 2017 | 0 |
May 2017 | 0 |
April 2017 | 3 |
March 2017 | 22 |
February 2017 | 78 |
January 2017 | 178 |
December 2016 | 607 |
November 2016 | 901 |
October 2016 | 1,498 |
Information is not held on the number of outstanding requests for an assessment for an NHS Continuing Healthcare ‘previously unassessed period of care’ from April 2012 onwards.