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NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care

Guidance and resouces relating to NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care.

NHS continuing healthcare is an ongoing package of health and social care that is arranged and funded solely by the NHS where an individual is found to have a primary health need. Such care is provided to an individual aged 18 or over to meet needs that have arisen as a result of disability, accident or illness.

NHS-funded nursing care is registered nursing care funded by the NHS for eligible nursing home residents.

The NHS-funded nursing care rate for the 2019 to 2020 financial year is £165.56 per patient per week. The Department of Health and Social Care has agreed to review the 2019 to 2020 NHS-funded nursing care rate. The outcome of this review, and any impact on the 2019 to 2020 NHS-funded nursing care rate, will be announced later in 2019.

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Statutory guidance

Published 14 January 2019
Last updated 10 July 2019 + show all updates
  1. Added information on NHS-funded nursing care and plans to review the current NHS-funded nursing care rate for 2019 to 2020.

  2. Added: 'NHS-funded nursing care practice guidance', 'NHS continuing healthcare checklist', 'NHS continuing healthcare decision support tool', 'NHS continuing healthcare fast-track pathway tool' and 'Delayed Discharges (Continuing Care) Directions' following break up of 'National framework for NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care' guidance page.

  3. First published.