Power of attorney and bills

[Dreamsarereal]

My 87 year old DM lost a lot of mobility and cognitive awareness over 24 hours last Thursday. There has been an improvement but she is currently in hospital. She arranged for a new central heating boiler to be fitted tomorrow and a flat roof was meant to be replaced at the end of July but poor weather means it is still to be done. My DB and I have power of attorney, will we be able to transfer money from her account to the tradesmen? We could do it in the hospital but the Wi-Fi is insecure.
Also, if she is still in hospital once the roof is done would we be allowed to arrange for the painting of the rooms with water damage?
Many thanks in advance

If you have a registered POA then yes.

Even though you have a registered LPS you will need to activate it with her bank.
My brother and I have LPA for our mother which we have recently activated. My brother took the LPA into her branch to activate himself as attorney and I had to make an an appointment at my local branch to activate myself. We both now have official access to her accounts via our own online banking and each have a debit card on her current account.

LPS = LPA

You don’t need to go into a branch as long as you can scan documents. We discovered a page was missing so had to go back to solicitor! Check everything but it was easy. The bank account then operates on line but statements go to account holder as usual. We found bank easy enough to deal with and they had a specialist team to help.