If you feel that your health care needs are severe, you can request a Continuing Health Care assessment. Any individual assessed as having a certain level of care needs may receive NHS continuing healthcare. This is not however, dependent on a particular diagnosis, disease, or condition.

Additionally, it is also not dependent on who provides the care or wherever that care is provided. If a person’s overall care needs show that their principal need is a health need or that their health needs are unstable, they may be eligible for NHS continuing healthcare. Once eligible for NHS continuing healthcare, care will be funded by the NHS. Please be aware that this is subject to review, and should the person’s care needs change significantly, then it is possible that funding arrangements may also change.