Services For PCTs: Helping Your PCT Manage Nursing Care Claims

As the independent continuing healthcare review specialists, Cheselden is here to support your PCT. We will provide clarity on continuing care issues to your staff, and the best advice on funding nursing care to your patients and their families. Our aim is to work with all PCTs to help people identify whether or not they have a valid claim for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding.

You can rely on Cheselden to only send your PCT cases for review where the patient’s claim for current or retrospective care funding is genuine. Our experienced clinical experts – many of whom have worked within specialist NHS CHC departments – will thoroughly assess each case, and we only ever proceed with valid claims.

Our skilled and professional team has many years' experience and we are committed to giving you and your patients a high quality service and expert clinical advice. We have excellent working relationships with many PCTs who value our independent approach to advising individuals and their families.

By working together, we can help solve many of the current problems around continuing care funding. We will make sure all valid cases are dealt with fairly and correctly, so eligible patients get the refunds and/or ongoing funding they deserve in line with the NHS Act 2006.

Why Work With Cheselden?

We are different to solicitors’ firms and other claims management companies. As market-leading experts and continuing care specialists, we fully understand:

• When claims for continuing healthcare funding are valid and invalid
• The processes for reclaiming care home fees that have been wrongly paid
• How you and your patients can avoid future issues with care costs.

What’s more, we understand the frustrations that PCTs experience with the sheer number of continuing cases that are sent for review – often incorrectly or inappropriately because the patient’s eligibility for funding has not been assessed properly, or at all.

How We Work

Unlike many solicitors, we fund our clients’ cases throughout the claims process and we don't charge fees or disbursements as the case progresses. This is why we only ever take on genuine cases we believe will succeed.

If a client is not eligible for continuing care funding, we will never ask your PCT to review their case. Instead, we will offer them expert advice on their funding options. By working closely with specialist charities and financial organisations, we can help self-funders choose the right option for paying their care home fees – options which often take the financial pressure away from PCTs and local authorities.

Contact Us

For more information and to speak to one of our team, please call 0845 659 1588.