NHS Continuing healthcare is awarded when a person is classed as having a ‘primary health need’, meaning their care needs should be met and funded by the NHS. Most people requiring care and support ...

Do you know someone living in a nursing home who is paying for their own care from savings, or by selling the family home? The chances are that the NHS should be paying for their care instead. In ...

Record numbers of chronically ill patients living with disabilities are being denied funding for their care, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. An analysis of official figures shows only a fifth of those ...

There is an area of health care that the general public in England does not know much about and that our politicians would prefer to keep that way. Its only when you have a relative with a serious ...

Seriously ill patients with Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis are among tens of thousands of people whose care is compromised by red tape and funding restrictions by parts of the NHS, MPs ...

A growing proportion of NHS workers agree that there are enough staff at their organisation to do their job properly, according to new results from the NHS Staff Survey. One of the biggest changes ...

Huge variations in access to continuing care on the NHS are "unjustifiable", a leading charity has warned. Age Concern said government figures showed people in some areas of England are 160 times more ...

Financial phone-in. When the NHS covers social care costs for free. Show more It's a little known fact that if you or a relative has an ongoing health problem, the NHS will pay, not just for your ...

Lots of people are asking what the difference is between elderly care from your local council, and NHS Continuing Care. So here's a quick and simple explainer. To get NHS Continuing Care you must be ...

The NHS in Scotland is not financially sustainable and its performance has continued to decline, the public spending watchdog has warned. Audit Scotland said health boards were "struggling to break ...