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| Kate Allatt A Rocky Stroke Recovery |
I have recently been embroiled in a case which has concerned me so much that I write this blog in the hope it helps others.
Power to you!
In trying to tackle the care home management team, this information may be useful to you too. With the recent and distressing BBC Panorama under cover report of care in ‘care’ homes, this is actually quite topical.
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Clarify the registered nursing home has the patients bed funded with a combination of health & Social care? (If it’s not a care home with nursing care for the resident, it may be a residential placement care home.)
1b. A NHS Continuous healthcare = a package of care arranged and funded solely by the NHS. Does the patient meets the eligibility criteria?
A ‘healthcare need’ is defined as those who require some degree of nursing or 24 hour nursing, yet many relatives are told they merely need social care needs.
Why? Because it relinquishes the NHS from any responsibility for funding the persons care. The person will instead be means tested and told to pay for their care.
We all thought healthcare and nursing care was free didn’t we?
To be clear in the NHS Continuing Healthcare guidelines it says,
‘A healthcare need is a need to the treatment, control or prevention of a disease, illness injury or disability and the care or aftercare of a person…’
Whereas,
IT IS ILLEGAL TO TAKE ON RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROVIDING CARE TO SOMEONE WHO SHOULD BE RECEIVING CARE FROM THE NHS.
2. Who is the visiting GP? He should visit and make referrals twice a week on behalf of the patient.
3. Who is the qualified physiotherapist (must be HCPC registered)? If the physiotherapist is not HCPC qualified in the care home, is the patient referred to a specialist stroke physiotherapist?
4. Have you reviewed their last Quality Care Commission report? If they are failing to meet the guidelines the home can be closed down. Get informed.
5. Have referrals been made for a patients’ unmet needs? Eg has a wheelchair, cushions, mattresses, mouth care, emotional needs etc been met? What about speech and communication needs? Is the patient currently in bed 24/7 without a wheelchair?
6. If you have kids under 5, with few family and or friends, please try this organisation – ‘Homestart’. They support people with kids under 5.
8. Please use sites such as GoFundMe and friends to help you Fundraise for assistive communication and mobility technology.
9. Go to the local papers and become a whistleblower, if your concerns are not being met.
10. If all else fails approach your local MP.
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