Parkinson’s UK in association with the Continuing Healthcare Alliance, March 2017
- This report is based on surveys of individuals who had applied for NHS CHC and professionals who work on NHS CHC as well as data from FOI requests to CCGs.
- Their recommendations include
- use of multidisciplinary teams composed of experienced professionals
- a mandatory training programme of training for professionals who organise and assess people for NHS CHC
- the checklist and Decision Support Tool should be rewritten
- introduction of an option for professionals to select if they agree that someone should not be reassessed for eligibility of NHS CHC and where people are marked down as permanently eligible reviews should only look at changing needs.
- ensure packages of care are needs-driven and not purely financially motivated to prevent people with long-term, serious health conditions being forced into residential care, or living at home with unsafe levels of care
- Publish data on how many people apply for NHS CHC as well as the number of people who proceed past the checklist stage to the full assessment.
