Please note that this webpage is currently being updated. If you have any questions or enquiries please call 01143051700 and you will be directed to an appropriate staff member.

In this section of our website, we provide further information for patients about assessments for continuing healthcare.  It also contains links to other websites that we think you might find useful. 

The Department for Health publishes a public information booklet on both continuing healthcare and funded nursing care, which you can find here.

• How do you decide if a person is able to give consent to be assessed?
• Can patients in hospital be assessed for continuing healthcare?
• Can children and young people have continuing healthcare?
• How do I appeal against an eligibility decision?
• How does the NHS decide which care to offer to a person?
• How do I challenge a decision about the care I have been offered?
• I think I should have been eligible for continuing healthcare in the past.  Can I reclaim the costs of care from a previous period?
• What is a Personal Health Budget?
• What is Aftercare (section 117 of the Mental Health Act)?
• Where can I access advocacy, to help me with my assessments for continuing healthcare?
• The NHS has agreed to refund some of the costs I incurred when arranging my own (or a relative's) care. How is the amount I am owed calculated?
• I am eligible for Funded Nursing Care.  How much will the CCG pay to my nursing home?
• Transition to adulthood?
• CHC Newsletter 

Useful links

Listed below are sources of further information which may be of use to some of our patients.

• Sheffield City Council
• Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
• Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust
• St Luke's Hospice
• Department of Health
• NHS England
• The Care Quality Commission
• Patient Choice
• Office of the Public Guardian