Care/nursing Home Funding.

[midagetrolop]

My 95 y.o. Mum has just moved into a Care Home in the nursing part. She is self funded at the moment, but it was mentioned that she could get some kind of funding for the nursing bit. This is all new to me and I wondered how we could find out if she is entitled to any such funding.
Please help if you can.

[bednobs]

the care home will know how to apply for it for her - it called FNC (fuded nursing care) Its about £110 a week and its a payment made by the NHS in recognition of the fact that nuring home residents do not get district nurses but still have nuring needs. It's a bit more (not much) if she is incontinent too
https://carers.org/article/nhs-funded-nursing-care
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/money-work-and-benefits/nhs-funded-nursing-care/

[Buenchico]

See also here:
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/globalassets/age-uk/documents/information-guides/ageukig06_care_homes_inf.pdf

[bednobs]

in sme areas the ch apply without talking to the relatives/patient, and some areas jut grant it without an assessment, so as it's paid directly to the care home, you may even find their fees have already taken this amount off

[roopower]

My mum spent many years in a nursing home and for the last few of those was incontinent, bedridden, virtually blind and deaf and had some dementia. The manager at the home was desperate to get the extra funding and my sister and I attended meetings over several years with social services filling in copious forms to no avail. It appeared to us that the only way mum would get the funding would be if she was a danger to the staff or herself, her health didn't appear to come into it. I do hope you have more luck with your mother.

[woofgang]

roopower, the Nursing care funding is paid by the NHS, not sure why you had meetings about it with social services?

[bednobs]

also roo it sounds like you are talking about continuing healthcare (CHC) - where the entire fee is paid by the NHS. You are right that behaviour (especially sexualised/disinhibited or violent is one of the main reasons people are granted CHC in my experience of working on a chc team) the other is skin problems (ie ulcers that dont heal or very complicated dressings). In my experience almost all people in a nursing home were entitled to the funded nursing care