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NHS Continuing Healthcare 

 
The NHS has a responsibility to fund care for people who have complex, intensive health care needs. This is called Continuing Health Care. People have to be assessed (or ‘screened’) to qualify this support – using a national framework for eligibility.
 
People should be screened before they go into care. They can also ask to be screened at any time, if they think they qualify. The NHS locally has just issued this notice setting timescales for people to ask for assessments if they feel they have 'slipped the net' and should have been screened before.
Introduction of deadlines for requests for assessments of eligibility for cases during the period 2004 - 2012.
On 15 March 2012, the Department of Health announced the introduction of deadlines for individuals to request an assessment of eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding, for cases during the period 1 April 2004 – 31 March 2012.
 
We are therefore asking for individuals or their representatives to notify NHS Tameside and Glossop in respect of previously un-assessed periods of time where there is evidence that they should have been assessed for eligibility for
NHS Continuing Healthcare funding. The time periods and the deadlines for notifying NHS Tameside and Glossop are as follows:
 
Time Period
Deadline
1 April 2004 – 30 September 2007 30 September 2012
1 October 2007 – 31 March 2011 30 September 2012
1 April 2011 – 31 March 2012 31 March 2013
   
The announcement of these deadlines introduces a process which will enable any individuals who should have been assessed from 1 April 2004 onwards to be identified and considered for eligibility as soon as possible, because as time passes, detailed recorded evidence of an individual’s needs for the period of time in question may no longer be available.

If you think that this affects you or a family member, then please contact Michelle Rothwell Head of Individualised Commissioning at NHS Tameside and Glossop or Julie Evans NHS Funded Care Team Manager on 01457 850520
to obtain further information on the process and to discuss this further.
 
 
 

Tameside LINk's Newsletter

The LINk's newsletter keeps you updated on what progress is being made, how to get involved and health and social care information - new documents produced, changes in legislation etc.
 
 
Here is the latest Acrobat document LINkNews 10 - May-July 2012
 
We also have recorded an audio version the LINkNews. Listen to the latest MP3 iconAudio LINkNews
 
 
 

'Enter and View' report on Tameside Hospital

 
Tameside LINk (Local Involvement Network) has today published the report about its latest round of visits to Tameside Hospital, where they talked to patients and their relatives about the care they receive.

 

 'Enter and View' Report 2011 - August Visits
This is the second round of visits to see how well the hospital is performing. We make some observations and ask questions based on things that local people have told us are important to them.


Bill Burgoine, the LINk’s Chair said ‘It’s now 18 months since we made our first recommendations to the hospital. It’s really disappointing that our second set of 'Enter and View' visits show such a limited improvement (since last winter). Out of the 35 observations we make and questions we ask, only six areas have improved and two have actually deteriorated.

 

Having said that, we were very pleased that there were many positive comments from patients and their families about the hard work that the majority of ward staff do. Our intention in setting up this structured process for assessing the hospital was to help them to have an independent demonstration of the improvements that they make.

 

We know that we set our expectations very high in this assessment but that’s because in healthcare the implications for an individual patient are very high, if something goes wrong.I think it’s really important for us to point out that we receive very few concerns from members of the public about clinical or medical care. Our work concentrates on communication, information, dignity, personal care, infection control and leadership.’

 

The LINk is committed to working with the hospital to help them to improve their services. Reports like this give the LINk an opportunity to share people’s experiences with the hospital as well as to demonstrate to Tameside residents that we’re working hard on their behalf. These 'Enter and View' visits rely heavily on the voluntary work of local people who help us to interview patients. We must thank everyone involved for the tireless, dedicated work they put in.
 
 
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Caring for our future


Do you use care and support services? Maybe you’re a carer?
The government is looking at changing the way the care and support system works. Tameside LINk ran two discussion groups to talk about improving care and support. See our  Caring for our future - Tameside LINk response which was fed back to the government.
 
 

 

Your questions

 
TamesideQuestions LINk is giving everybody in Tameside the opportunity to ask questions of the people involved in providing health or social care services in Tameside.
 
So far we have questioned:
  • Paul Connellan, Chair of Tameside Hospital
  • Dr Raj Patel, Chair of the Clinical Commissioning Group

See the full set of questions and answers

 
 
If you would like to submit a question for Councillor Lynn Travis, Executive Member (Adult’s Services), please contact Ruth Madden, LINk Community Networker, Tel: 0161 339 4985 Email: ruth.madden@t3sc.org by 20 June 2012.
 
 
 
 

Publication informs patients and families what standards to expect from the regulation of their NHS hospital

 

QCQ logoFollowing the introduction of a new law, all NHS hospitals in England must now be licensed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). To be licensed, hospitals must show that they are meeting new essential standards of quality and safety. Now CQC has published a leaflet which informs patients, their carers and families, what they can expect from the essential standards.

 

The leaflet can be read or downloaded from CQC’s website: www.cqc.org.uk

 

 
 

LINk publishes hospital report

 
Tameside HospitalIn May 2010, over 90 people came to Ashton Town Hall to tell the LINk about their experiences of care at Tameside Hospital. The two hour event gave people a chance to share their experiences with each other and to talk about ideas for improving care.
 
Whilst some people had positive stories to tell, it was inevitable that much of the talk would be about things that people were unhappy with. We made eight key recommendations after the event. These covered: staffing, communication, information, leadership, eating and drinking, and bathing and toileting.
 
We made some follow-up ‘Enter and View’ visits to the hospital in the Winter of 2010/11 to assess what changes have happened since we made our recommendations.
 
Copies of the reports can be downloaded here:

 LINk Tameside Hospital Improvement Report - July 2010

 LINk Tameside Hospital Improvement Summary Report

 
 
 
 

 

 

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