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Transitional arrangements following NHS reorganisation and pending national framework implementation

Published: 18 October 2006

Guidance on transitional arrangements for moving toward the implementation of the national framework. The document aims to consolidate previous guidance in order to clarify responsibilities for the NHS and local authorities. It also takes into account organisational changes within the NHS.

• NHS continuing healthcare: transitional arrangements following NHS reorganisation and pending national framework implementation

Action following the Grogan judgment

Published: 3 March 2006

Guidance on immediate action that SHAs, PCTs and local authorities should take following the judgment in the case of R (Grogan) v. Bexley NHS Care Trust on 25 January 2006.

• NHS continuing health care: action following the Grogan judgment

Interaction of continuing care and NHS-funded nursing care

Published: 22 December 2005

This letter of advice to strategic health authorities (SHAs) aims to ensure that the correct process is being used to differentiate between people who receive fully funded NHS continuing care and the high band of NHS-funded nursing care.

• Ensuring that all recipients of high band NHS-funded nursing care have been correctly considered against eligibility criteria for fully funded NHS continuing care

Care home residents awarded fully funded NHS continuing care retrospectively

The Health Service Ombudsman published a report 'NHS Funding for Long Term Care of Older and Disabled People' in February 2003. In the light of the findings of the report some care home residents are being retrospectively awarded free NHS continuing care.