We have experienced solicitors who can provide you with strong legal representation for NHS continuing healthcare assessments, appeals, or independent reviews.

Engaging our advocacy services can give you a greater chance of a positive outcome.

If an NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment is on the cards, the NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB) will make contact with you to arrange a suitable time and date. These meetings can take place in person or virtually online. During the assessment, a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), usually comprising a Nurse and Social Worker, will complete the Decision Support Tool (DST). They will then make a recommendation on eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding.

It’s imperative that the MDT considers all relevant information and evidence about your loved one’s needs. They also need to listen to your perspective, and will seek your opinion on the appropriate levels of need.

Subject to availability of our experienced lawyers, we can provide you with legal representation for NHS continuing healthcare assessments. We will work with you to ensure that your voice is heard. We will make oral submissions on your behalf regarding your loved one’s needs, the appropriate levels of need in the DST, and why we consider your loved one might be eligible.

If we are already representing you in relation to an appeal, then as part of that service we will offer to represent you at meetings and appeal panels.

If you have made an appeal yourself and you’d like us to represent you at your appeal panel or meeting, please get in touch with us so we can discuss how best we might be able to help you with that.

If you would like legal representation for an NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment, it’s preferable for us to see up to date care home records. We will also need to obtain your views in advance of the assessment, so that we can make effective, evidence-based submissions on your behalf at the meeting.

Our expert lawyers can also represent you at a Continuing Healthcare Appeal meeting or an Independent Review Panel at NHS England. We will need to have undertaken full review of all relevant case paperwork in advance of the meeting before we can accept instructions to represent you. This is so we can assess the merits of your appeal.

NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments and appeals can be arranged by NHS bodies at short notice. Our ability to represent you is subject to the availability of a suitably experienced advocate. Please contact us as soon as possible to avoid disappointment and for further details.

• It can be reassuring to have the support of a lawyer, who has intimate knowledge of the law and guidance.
• The lawyer’s training and their understanding of the law and evidence makes them effective advocates.
• Assessors are nursing and social care professionals, not usually lawyers. This means that the contribution of a lawyer can be helpful in ensuring the procedure runs as it should on the day.
• A lawyer’s job is to act in your best interests.
• A lawyer will consider the appropriate strategy to adopt on your behalf and be able to address unexpected issues which arise on the day.

You only pay us for the time we spend on your case and our hourly rates are competitive. Our fees will vary from case-to-case, because the time we spend will depend on the specific circumstances of the case. Such as what evidence is readily available to consider and whether the meeting is to be held virtually online, or in person.

Once we’ve identified your requirements, we will provide you with a clear estimate of our fees in advance of undertaking our work.

I found them to be extremely persuasive advocates at the recent CHC assessment for my mum. Their “sum up” at the end of the meeting and arguments as to why my mum met the criteria for funding were really good.

I’ve just received a copy of the report from NHS England following the recent Independent Review Panel, confirming the ICB’s decision was UNSOUND and my dad should be eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare! I’m over the moon to hear this after all this time. Enormous thanks to our solicitor who got under the skin of our dad’s case and knew exactly what to argue and how to argue it. Their advocacy style is firm and assertive, yet friendly and approachable at the same time. It’s clear from the report that, as a result of their presentation of the case, the panel understood my dad’s needs exactly. I couldn’t be more grateful to them and the team.