Michael Mandelstam

Nhs Continuing Healthcare

An A-Z of Law, Practice, Funding Decisions and Challenges

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Produktbeschreibung

The law of NHS continuing healthcare is vital in deciding whether adults in long-term care get full NHS funding, or have to fund themselves. This essential guide through the NHS legal maze provides information for health and social care practitioners, who need to make well-informed, well-judged decisions for the care of patients and service users.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781787751620
• ISBN-10: 1787751627
• Artikelnr.: 57760631

Autorenporträt

Michael Mandelstam provides independent legal training to local authorities, the NHS and voluntary organisations. In the past, he worked at the Disabled Living Foundation, a national voluntary organisation, and for a few years at the Social Services Inspectorate at the Department of Health. He holds postgraduate qualifications in law, information studies and the history of science and medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1.Introduction
2.Basic rules and common pitfalls
3.Background, explanation and evidence of a dysfunctional system
4.Chapter 4: A-Z List
Adaptations, see Home adaptations
Accommodation and NHS continuing healthcare
Advocacy and NHS continuing healthcare
Aids to daily living, see Equipment
Altered states of consciousness, see Decision Support Tool
Appropriate clinician (end of life)
Assessment
Breathing, see Decision Support Tool
Care Act 2014
Carers
Case management
Challenging behaviour
Challenging decisions
Charging for services, see Means-testing
Checklist
Children
Clinical commissioning groups
Cognition, see Decision Support Tool
Communication, see Decision Support Tool
Competence, see: Expertise of assessors and knowledge of the patient
Commissioning support units
Complexity
Consent
Consultation in decision-making
Continence, see Decision Support Tool
Continuity of care
Coordinator
Cooperation
Cost-effectiveness
Coughlan case
Decision-making process
Decision support tool (DST)
Delay
Deprivation of liberty
Diagnosis
Direct payments
Discrimination
Dispute resolution between NHS and social services
Disputes between person and the NHS
Domains of need, see Decision support tool
Double scoring
Dowry payments, see Legacy payments
Drug therapies and medication, see Decision Support Tool
Education, health and care plans
Eligibility
End of life, see Fast track Pathway
Equipment
Evidence of need
Expertise of assessors, and knowledge of the patient
Family involvement, see: Person and family involvement
Fast track pathway tool (end of life)
Final decisions about CHC eligibility, see Clinical commissioning groups
Financial gatekeeping, see Final decision-making; Resources
Funded nursing care
Gap between health and social care
Gatekeeping, see Financial gatekeeping
Grogan case
Guidance
Health care needs
Health Service Ombudsman
Health services generally
Home adaptations
Hospices
Hospital discharge
Incidental or ancillary or of a nature beyond social services
Independent review panels
Indicative cases
Informal carers, see Carers
Input (of care)
Intensity
Interim provision of care during assessment and decision
Joint funding
Joint working
Judicial review
Learning disability
Legal framework
Legal cases, see Indicative cases
Legal remedies, see Disputes between person and the NHS
Local authorities, see Social Services
Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO)
Means-testing
Meeting need
Mental capacity
Mental health aftercare
Mental Health Act 1983, see Mental health aftercare
Mobility, see Decision Support Tool
Multi-disciplinary team
National Framework on NHS Continuing Healthcare
National Health Service Act 2006
Nature
NHS-employed staff
NHS England
Northern Ireland
Nurse assessors
Nutrition, see Decision Support Tool
Panels
Paying privately, see Private care
People's own homes
Person and family involvement
Personal health budgets
Personal injury compensation
Predictable unpredictability
Pointon case
Primary decision maker
Primary health need
Private top-up care
Process, see Decision making
Professional judgement
Prohibitions
Psychological and emotional needs, see Decision support tool
Public Service Ombudsman for Wales
Quality of care, see Nature
Quantity of care, see Incidental or Ancillary
Referral for NHS continuing healthcare
Registered nursing
Rehabilitation and recovery
Reimbursement
Remedies, see Disputes
Resources
Respite care
Responsible commissioner, see Clinical commissioning groups
Review of decision about CHC see Disputes
Reviewing care package
Safeguarding
Scotland
Screening, see Checklist
Section 117, Mental Health Act, see Mental health after care
Setting
Skin, see Decision Support Tool
Social care
Social services
Specialist staff
Timescales, see Delay
Topping up, see Private top-up care
Training
Transition
Unpredictability
Wales
Well managed needs
Withdrawal of care