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What is NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)?

What is NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) � NHS continuing healthcare is an ongoing package of health and social care that is arranged and funded solely by the NHS where an individual is found to have a ‘primary health need’. � Such care is provided to an individual aged 18 or over, to meet needs that have arisen as a result of disability, accident or illness

�A CHC review should be undertaken no later than three months after the initial eligibility decision, in order to reassess care needs and eligibility for NHS continuing healthcare, and to ensure that those needs are being met. � Reviews should then take place annually, as a minimum.

What is CHC Fast Track

What is CHC Fast track? Individuals with a rapidly deteriorating condition that may be entering a terminal phase, may require ‘fast tracking’ for immediate provision of NHS CHC � The person may need NHS CHC funding to enable their needs to be urgently met (e. g. to enable them to go home to die or to provide appropriate end of life support to be put in place either in their own home or in a care setting). �

What is Funded Nursing Care (FNC)?

What is Funded Nursing Care (FNC)? � FNC is the funding provided by the NHS to care homes providing nursing, to support the provision of nursing care by a registered nurse for those assessed as eligible. � In all cases, individuals should be considered for eligibility for NHS continuing healthcare before a decision is reached about the need for NHS-funded nursing care (NHS-funded nursing care provided by registered nurses) in care home accommodation (where registered to provide nursing care).

COST

COST � Nationally around 60, 000 individuals are in receipt of NHS CHC at any given time. � The spend on NHS CHC currently totals around £ 2. 5 Billion per annum

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire � At end of June 2016 617 individual's were eligible for CHC. v 168 CHC v 449 Fast Tracks At the end of June 2016 there were 1, 224 FNC cases. � COST � CHC Budget £ 17, 725, 310 � FNC Budget £ 9, 514, 699

The CHC Team � Clinical Manager � 4 Team Leads � Personal Health Budget Lead � 20 Nurses � Business Manager � 8 Administrators

CHC TEAM � Based at Sanger House, Gloucestershire Business Park, Brockworth , GL 3 4 FE. � TELEPHONE � FAX 0300 421 0302 0300 421 1213