Continuing Care

(asked on 25th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include a public consultation in his Department's review of the Decision Support Tool for NHS Continuing Health Care, published in March 2018.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 30th April 2018

The updated National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care and associated assessment tools, including the NHS Continuing Healthcare Decision Support Tool, was published on 1 March 2018, and will be implemented on 1 October 2018.

This update to the National Framework followed an extensive period of external engagement with stakeholders, across the National Health Service, local authorities, and patient representative groups.

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