CHC and funded care

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We help empower patients, improve their experience and deliver personalised care through assessment, review and care planning with a focus on quality of care.

We offer a flexible modular approach of solutions for each step of the full lifecycle of continuing healthcare (CHC) and funded care pathways:

CHC and funded care specialist expertise delivered across specific steps or end-to-end along the entire pathway
Clinical audit and review
Finance
Market development and procurement
Bespoke technology packages: case management and dynamic purchasing system
Data and analytics on:
Referral information type and source
Waiting times, equality and inclusion
Time to offer, time to placement, cost
Frequency of changes in needs
Training and development.

CHC and funded care pathways

Our key strengths

As the largest provider of funded care services in the UK, we deliver services at scale, aligned to best practice and tailored to match all relevant frameworks and legislation
Specialist multi-disciplinary expertise
Working in close partnerships with local authorities and care providers
Easy access to additional specialist capacity (such as in liberty protection safeguards)
Technology for purchasing and case management to enable efficiency
Access to large data sets to benchmark and analyse trends.

Key leads

Clare Thomason

Lead for services in Lancashire, Cheshire and Merseyside

Martin Pope

Lead for services in the Midlands

Miranda Pilkington

Lead for services to NHS England and national bodies

Linda Riley

Lead for Personalised healthcare commissioning

We think you’ll need

Management and delivery of CHC and funded care, section 117, children and young people’s (CYP) continuing care, neuro rehab, funded nursing care and transforming care programmes
Deliver a person-centred service in line with Personalisation Agenda
Specialist knowledge for assessment, brokerage and review
Consistency in quality of care and improved patient experience
Efficient and effective use of resources while ensuring fairness
Avoid long waits for decisions
Work through increasing demand and pressure following COVID pause in assessments
Forecasting and budget control.

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News, views and case studies

2 March 2023

Improving the process for managing domiciliary care placements

Clinical commissioning groups in Staffordshire wanted to address the lack of a contractual structure for Health-Funded packages of care with Domiciliary Care…

27 May 2022

Improving care for people with learning disabilities and autism

We codesigned and delivered a transformation programme for the improvement of care for people with learning disabilities and/or autism. Background NHS England…

5 August 2021

Database supports national CHC workforce recovery project

We designed a national database to record, monitor and report the onboarding, training and development of continuing healthcare (CHC) staff recruited quickly…

24 June 2021

Responding to the challenge of discharging patients during COVID-19

The COVID-19 outbreak placed an unprecedented strain on the health and social care system. A coordinated and well-managed response by MLCSU and…

22 June 2021

Rapid recruitment and training of expert CHC nurses to tackle the assessment backlog caused by COVID-19

Our programme helped the NHS to restore, recover and renew following the enormous disruption caused by COVID-19. It has created a blueprint…

21 May 2021

Clearing a 5,000-patient backlog of continuing healthcare assessments

We worked in partnership with local authorities to successfully complete retrospective assessments of individuals supported via COVID-19 funding arrangements during the suspension…

8 February 2021

Enabling two Merseyside based CCGs to block book beds with ease

We helped our clients in Merseyside to identify and commission the most appropriate block contract of intermediate care beds, reaching a decision…

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