Continuing healthcare solicitors
It is always important to recognise that often a person may need a wide range of care services including a mix of community care, healthcare and continuing healthcare services.
Frequently people do not receive all the care and support services they require to live as independent a life as possible because their healthcare and social needs have been ignored or underestimated.
Pannone can ensure you receive all the necessary ‘primary’ health care services (hospital treatment, access to a GP, public services) as well as ensuring you receive all your necessary continuing healthcare services post-discharge from hospital or when you are living in the community with ongoing health or nursing care needs.
It is common that healthcare services are unfairly restricted by the bodies providing primary, secondary and continuing healthcare following a failure to properly assess the needs of the individual. This can lead to a breakdown of the care services you require in the community.
Pannone can help you argue that you need continuing healthcare when the Primary Care Trust unfairly and unreasonably decides that you do not need healthcare but instead need community or social care services.
Using the decision support tool and with the appeals process, we can help you with continuing healthcare decisions made.
We can also help you if you encounter a problem in accessing appropriate care services provided by the local authority or the Primary Care Trust. For example, we can challenge Primary Care Trust, and or a local authority for any failure to work together to assess your complete care needs and ensure you receive a full package of care services of whatever type.
Discharge Delays
We believe it is always important to help those who have suffered profound and serious injuries long before, and certainly at, the point when they are to be discharged from hospital: at which point not only will you often be having to deal with life changing injuries but probably the difficulties of rehabilitation and moving back into the community.
We can help get the full package of care services you need and deal with any delayed discharge from hospital. We can ensure that full discharge planning is undertaken by the local authority and/or Primary Care Trust and that you are not, for example, simply discharged into an inappropriate and inadequate residential placement.
We think any failure to properly assess care needs or provide appropriate care needs should be challenged. A failure of this type may constitute a breach of your human rights if it deprives you of a fundamental right as set out by the European Convention of Human Rights. A claim does not necessarily mean a breach of human rights law, but our expert Human Rights solicitors consider the circumstances of every continuing healthcare claim in order to identify any human rights violations and seek compensation accordingly.
We can help you challenge such decisions, or failure to make such decisions, by way of negotiation or argument, formal complaint or in circumstances when the Primary Care Trust or local authority is acting unreasonably, irrationally and unlawfully, by way of Judicial Review proceedings in the Administrative Court.
Disability rights and Human right solicitors
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