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1141030

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to allow individuals in receipt of continuing healthcare funding to transfer their funding between CCGs in the event they move home.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	280298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>Determining which clinical commissioning group (CCG) is responsible for an individual’s care is relevant to broader National Health Service provision as well as to Continuing Healthcare. In 2013, NHS England published guidance on this subject: ‘Who Pays? Determining responsibility for payments to providers’. This includes guidance on transferring funding between CCGs in the event that an individual moves home. The guidance is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/who-pays.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/who-pays.pdf</a></p><p>The NHS England guidance sets out that the key element for determining responsibility is identifying the ‘usual residence’ of the individual concerned. This is based either on where the individual is registered with a general practitioner (GP) or, if they are not registered with a GP, the place where the individual is living.</p><p>Both this guidance and the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care emphasise the importance of ensuring continuity of care when a patient moves.</p><p>If there is a dispute between CCGs then CCGs should agree interim measures until the dispute is resolved through their own local dispute resolution process. If the dispute cannot be resolved in this way, then the matter should be forwarded to NHS England.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 25/07/2019 14:18:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1083721

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidelines he has issued to clinical commissioning groups to ensure that they accept and process without delay applications received from clinicians for fast-track continuing healthcare funding; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	229703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>Under the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care (October 2018), a clinical commissioning group (CCG) must accept and immediately action a Fast Track Pathway Tool where the Tool has been properly completed.</p><p> </p><p>The National Framework states that CCGs should have processes in place to enable Fast Track care packages to be commissioned quickly and it is not appropriate for individuals to experience delay in the delivery of their care package while concerns over the use of the Fast Track Pathway Tool are resolved.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is responsible for holding CCGs to account if they are not following the National Framework.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/03/2019 10:53:34 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1083723

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many fast-track applications for continuing healthcare funding have been rejected by each clinical commissioning group in the last twelve months for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	229704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The statistical information regarding individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the eligibility of Fast Track applications is attached.</p><p> </p><p>In the last 12 months, all completed assessments for the Continuing Healthcare Fast Track Pathway have resulted in the individual being found eligible. This is because, under the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care, the completed Fast Track Pathway Tool, with clear reasons why the individual fulfils the criteria and which clearly evidences that an individual is both rapidly deteriorating and may be entering terminal phase, is in itself sufficient to establish eligibility.</p><p> </p><p>However, some Fast Track Pathway referrals do not meet this criteria. The National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care specifies that ‘exceptionally, there may be circumstances where CCGs receive a completed Tool which appears to show that the individual’s condition is not related to the above criteria at all.’ In these instances, NHS England advises that the referral be recorded as ‘discounted before assessment’. This category also includes other scenarios, for instance those cases where the individual passes away.</p><p> </p><p>Data regarding this group has only been collected since the second quarter of 2018-19. During the six months for which we have data since then, 1,838 referrals have been recorded as ‘discounted before assessment’. During this period, 45,484 referrals for the Fast Track Pathway were assessed as eligible.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/03/2019 13:40:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage attachment 1 file name PQ229704 attached data.xlsx title PQ229704 attached data
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1063664

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timescale is for Care Commissioning Groups to request information from relevant (a) medical and (b) care organisations during a continuing healthcare appeal.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	222651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care (October 2018) requires that all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a local resolution process for responding to requests for reviews of Continuing Healthcare eligibility decisions.</p><p> </p><p>The National Framework specifies that local resolution processes should initially involve an informal two-way meeting between the CCG and the individual or their representative. Where a formal meeting is required, this could result in the CCG requesting further information from other organisations.</p><p> </p><p>Under the National Framework, CCGs are responsible for developing, delivering and publishing a resolution process which includes timescales.</p><p> </p><p>The National Framework specifies that CCGs should deal with requests for review of eligibility decisions in a timely manner.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is responsible for holding CCGs to account if they are not following the National Framework.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 222652 222654 question first answered 26/02/2019 12:10:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1063665

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the length of time required is for a Care Commissioning Group to respond to a continuing healthcare appeal.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	222652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care (October 2018) requires that all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a local resolution process for responding to requests for reviews of Continuing Healthcare eligibility decisions.</p><p> </p><p>The National Framework specifies that local resolution processes should initially involve an informal two-way meeting between the CCG and the individual or their representative. Where a formal meeting is required, this could result in the CCG requesting further information from other organisations.</p><p> </p><p>Under the National Framework, CCGs are responsible for developing, delivering and publishing a resolution process which includes timescales.</p><p> </p><p>The National Framework specifies that CCGs should deal with requests for review of eligibility decisions in a timely manner.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is responsible for holding CCGs to account if they are not following the National Framework.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 222651 222654 question first answered 26/02/2019 12:10:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1063666

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the length of time required is for a (a) medical and (b) care organisation to respond to a request for information by a Care Commissioning Group in relation to a continuing healthcare application.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	222653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care October 2018, states that after a clinical commissioning group (CCG) receives a positive checklist they should in most cases make the eligibility decision within 28 calendar days. CCGs are responsible for setting their own time periods for each ‘stage’ of the process including notice periods to families and timeline expectations from third parties regarding requests for information.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 222655 question first answered 26/02/2019 15:46:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1063667

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what length of time is set for a (a) medical and (b) care organisation to respond to a request for information by a Care Commissioning Group in relation to a continuing healthcare appeal.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	222654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care (October 2018) requires that all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a local resolution process for responding to requests for reviews of Continuing Healthcare eligibility decisions.</p><p> </p><p>The National Framework specifies that local resolution processes should initially involve an informal two-way meeting between the CCG and the individual or their representative. Where a formal meeting is required, this could result in the CCG requesting further information from other organisations.</p><p> </p><p>Under the National Framework, CCGs are responsible for developing, delivering and publishing a resolution process which includes timescales.</p><p> </p><p>The National Framework specifies that CCGs should deal with requests for review of eligibility decisions in a timely manner.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is responsible for holding CCGs to account if they are not following the National Framework.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 222651 222652 question first answered 26/02/2019 12:10:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1012366

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of assessments for continuing health care funding took place in a community setting in (a) March and (b) October 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	194736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/11/2018 14:12:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

834755

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussion she has had with the Continuing Healthcare Alliance on care package funding arrangements for people with NHS continuing health care funding who had their eligibility for that funding withdrawn are enter the local resolution process.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	126179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department is currently working to update the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and National Health Service-funded nursing care. This has included a structured engagement process with partners in NHS England and local government, as well as interested stakeholders, service users and charities on proposed changes to the National Framework. The CHC Alliance were included in this engagement process and raised this particular issue.</p><p> </p><p>The update to the National Framework is intended to provide greater clarity for clinical commissioning groups and local authorities on a number of elements of the CHC process. The updated National Framework will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/02/2018 14:18:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

834758

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Continuing Care: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that the new National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care will require Care Commissioning Groups to continue to fund packages of care for people during the appeals process.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	126180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department is currently working to update the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and National Health Service-funded nursing care. This has included a structured engagement process with partners in NHS England and local government, as well as interested stakeholders, charities and service users on our proposed changes to the National Framework.</p><p> </p><p>This update is intended to provide greater clarity for clinical commissioning groups and local authorities on a number of elements of the CHC process. The updated National Framework will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/02/2018 16:14:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas