Continuing health care assessment.

[Proudofeveryone]

Our 93 year old mum had this assessment this morning.
She has heart failure, kidney failure, odema in both legs.
Bleeding from the back passage and is not eating.
And can you believe that it was stopped because she is medically unfit.
The woman that came scored mother as not in any pain.
Or in any discomfort.
Absolutely disgusted with the system.

Unfortunately CHC assessments score the patient's abilities and needs for care, not their general level of health. CHC is all about money - should the NHS pay for care, or should the patient/their local authority be paying - it's not about quality of care. Unfortunately it's a shining example of the disconnect between health care and social care here.

You can appeal the decision, like pp says its awarded for complex needs not someones general health. Is mum in hospital or at home, what was stopped because she was unfit.

I'm sorry your Mum is so unwell.
CHC is just a funding stream though, she should still get the care she needs, but the LA or Mum will pay.

Would also recommend you raise a dispute on this decision.

Unfortunately mum will be dead by next week. Which is when they want to
come back to finish off the forms.
Mum is in a nursing home.
Fair play to the nurse that was with us in the meeting kicked off big style
as this woman who was doing the assessment thought mum was ok
because she hadn't lost any weight. Forgetting that most of her weight
is in her legs.
Mum is now starting the end of life process.
GP stopping her medication because if she has one for her heart it effects
her kidneys.

Sorry to hear mum is so poorly, can the nurse ask the gp to apply for fast track funding now instead.