| Heading: |
Dementia: Continuing Care |
| Question ID: |
1807422 |
| UIN: |
55855 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5122 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Manuela Perteghella
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| Asking Member handle: |
mp4stratford
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@mp4stratford
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that dementia specialists are involved in NHS continuing healthcare assessments for people living with dementia. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
The National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care sets out the process for determining eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC). This statutory guidance is clear that the multidisciplinary team involved in CHC assessm... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |