If you lived in South Reading only 11.4 people per 50,000 qualified for CHC.
In Salford 144.6 people per 50,000 qualified!
If that isn’t a postcode lottery, what is?!
Figures taken from an article on Page 8 of Which, November 2014more info if you search which.co.uk/carelottery
Our family has met numerous NHS and social care professionals recently regarding my 90 year old grandmother with late stage dementia, yet not one has ever suggested a CHC assessment. Why?
Because it will cost the government money! If they even get a sniff of an idea that the patient has a house or savings they will do everything they can to get their hands on it. Yet CHC is supposed to be for patients whose needs are supposed to be above those that Social Services provide, or otherwise need hospital care, or nearing the end of life. Google Grogan Continuing Healthcare and you will find details of a case that might help you fight your own case. Also Google Care to be Different. Let us know how you get on. I was so near a total breakdown that I had to give up trying to claim for mum, effectively losing £40,000.
Truthfully some of the staff we’ve met were so clueless I’m not sure they will even have heard of CHC. Weaponised incompetence.
Malicious pretend incompetence. I was waiting for 3 years for my carers assessment to be updated to record my health issues, only for it to be made worse, not better. When I said that I found Christmas very difficult, the assessor didn’t ask why?
His recorded comment, from the care provider (who he shouldn’t even have spoken to about my supposedly confidential carers assessment) was that M only came home for 3 days at Christmas!
It’s already on record that my hands are so sore with arthritis that on bad days I use a Magimix to cut carrots. Getting everything done for Christmas is like a military operation that starts any minute now as I can only work at snail’s pace now.
I will be feeding 4 adults, me, both sons and grandson, average height over 6 feet tall. As M needs a special diet, everything is cooked from basic ingredients. He’s always loved helping me, but what takes me 10 minutes takes him an hour. I always say that for us Christmas is a Festival for the Family, and it’s all condensed now as my eldest works for the council. As they are two men short and the third is on holiday, my eldest will be working non stop, and he will be shattered when he finally gets home on Christmas Eve.
It is sad that I help others all over the UK but cannot get the services I’m entitled to, for myself.