NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding offers a lifeline for people who require ongoing care but it’s important you understand how you can obtain it for your loved one when they need it.

When it comes to accessing essential healthcare services, it’s important that you understand the financial aspects. NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding provides comprehensive care support for individuals with significant health needs. However, questions about the costs involved often arise.

Accessing long-term care for loved ones with complex health needs can be daunting. It’s understandable that you want to do the best for them and ensure they have access to the right medication and treatment. NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding provides a lifeline for those requiring ongoing healthcare support.

The question of when a Best Interest Meeting may be necessary is a common one. Best Interest Meetings are required in the event where decisions need to be made on behalf of individuals lacking the capacity to make these decisions themselves.

When it comes to making decisions for individuals who lack capacity, clarity on who attends Best Interest Meetings and holds decision-making authority is crucial. Best Interest Meetings bring together a range of people in different roles, who each play an important role in the decision-making process.

Decision-making on behalf of individuals lacking mental capacity requires legal frameworks that have been designed to safeguard their rights. One such system is the Best Interest Meeting, which ensures that decisions are made in the individual's best interests.

Making decisions for a loved one who lacks capacity can feel daunting, and understanding the legal structures in place to protect their rights and interests is crucial.

Navigating decisions for a loved one who may lack capacity when it comes to making decisions can be overwhelming. Understanding who has the authority to make these decisions is crucial for ensuring their well-being and protecting their interests.

This International Women's Day, we're highlighting the journeys, challenges, and experiences of our female lawyers. Their stories show the importance of diversity, resilience, and empowerment in shaping an inclusive legal community. We’re hearing from Hilary Cragg, who is a Partner and Solicitor in our Care Support Team.

Now that CHC has been imbedded with the National Framework for some years now, the CCGs understand much more about the process, but that does not mean that everyone who works in the CHC process does.

What is NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding? It is funding granted by the NHS, which regionally means the local Clinical Commissioning Group.

Frontal temporal lobe dementia is a relatively rare form of dementia, it can also be known as Frontotemporal Dementia. It is only approximately 5% of all dementia cases. Some dementias may show damage to the frontal temporal lobe. Therefore, demonstrating some of the attributes of frontal temporal lobe dementia, but not necessarily all of them.

The definition of dementia is damage to the brain that affects a person’s day-to-day living and is deteriorating. This can often take the form of both forgetting and confusion. However, the crucial part, of detecting early signs of dementia, is recognising that something has changed and that that change is permanent. Rather than a temporary difference that is recoverable from such as a small isolated stroke.

This seems like such a simple question, but the answer to it is highly complex. Each person who may need to go into care is unique, and their circumstances are as unique as they are. Therefore, each person must have their own circumstances considered as an individual.