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The English national framework for NHS continuing healthcare came into force on 1 October 2007 as a development in the light of the case of Coughlan which established that where a person's need is primarily for health care then the health service must fund the whole cost of nursing home placement. [1]
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The National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19 [1]) introduced an internal market into the supply of healthcare in the United Kingdom, making the state an 'enabler' rather than a supplier of health and social care provision. [2]
There were at that time 116,564 people aged 65 or over in residential accommodation provided by or on behalf of local authorities, compared with 51,800 patients in NHS hospital departments of geriatric medicine. [12] In 2019, according to NHS England, there were about 17,000 nursing and residential care homes in England housing about 400,000 ...
[citation needed] The NHS has full responsibility for funding the whole placement if the resident is in a care home with nursing that meets the criteria for NHS continuing Health Care. This is identified by a multidisciplinary assessment process. [32]
In April 2018 the Department of Health and Social Care proposed to increase the scope of the scheme, claiming that personal health budgets had reduced NHS continuing healthcare costs by 17%. At present only people receiving continuing healthcare funding have a right to a personal health budget, though clinical commissioning groups may offer ...
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The Health and Care Act 2022 put these systems on a statutory basis, each with an approved constitution. On 1 July 2022, a total of 42 ICSs became statutory. There are more than 70 performance metrics by which they are judged, grouped into six "oversight themes": quality, access and outcomes, preventing ill health and reducing inequalities, leadership, people, and finances.