The Government introduced a new framework for assessing eligibility for Continuing Care funding in October last year. It was supposed to make the process clearer for everyone and was expected to increase the number of people assessed as eligible.

Has this happened in practice or is the local PCT still pushing as hard as possible to avoid having to fund Continuing Care? Does your local authority take a robust line with the PCT or does it just roll over? Do self-funders get a fair deal or are they seen as easy targets for money?

Hopefully the new guidance has made things better but continuing care is one area where the division of responsibilities between health and social care makes no sense whatsoever.

The NHS will always have an incentive to find assess borderline cases as ineligible and councils will not have any directive force to stop them from doing so, while the government has no incentive to prevent this practice as it will increase the bill to the public purse.