Care Home Costs & Nursing Home Costs
Are you or a relative currently covering care home costs in a nursing home or own home? Did you know that a large number of UK residents currently in care may not have been assessed correctly and so may be eligible for care paid for through the NHS regardless of the type of care received? Whether the care received was domiciliary, residential or nursing home care, you may well be entitled to claim back some or all of the fees paid.
Back in 1948, the NHS pledged "free cradle to grave care for all". Despite this pledge, 800,000 of the 2 million older people in the UK receive no financial support and whilst the average nursing home costs are around £600 per week, many of these people are forced to sell their homes and other assets to pay for their care.
In 2007, after a review of the previous system of mean testing by the Health Services Ombudsman, the NHS implemented a National Framework to assess eligibility for NHS funded healthcare. A health minister has since deemed this current system of means testing "confusing, bruising and undignified".
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