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Hello can you please explain to me what the difference is between having your poa's & epa's registered? Thank you.

Can the ss take a person from her day centre and put her into a home,without even letting the family know? then have the cheek to ask her to pay for the rent?
Now they are asking for ransome
Is this right, they are trying to make us feel guilty by the home saying she will be evicted? also having...

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In today's Daily Mail there was another story of someone who recouped the fees paid by their relative.....great stuff

Meeting again with PCT on Monday re. getting a second PCT to review FIL's request for CHC. I did read somewhere that if you had 2 Severes in the Domains this meant automatic entitlement to CHC ? Or can you have a certain number of Highs instead or a mixture of Highs, Severes and Moderates? Is there any definitive no. of Severes/Highs/Moderates that would get us this ?

Hi again all
Whilst chatting to the BBC Reporter yesterday about my father in law it reminded me about the so called Legal Charge placed on father in laws home (as he has no savings). We signed a document to say this could be done by Social Services (before we found this website and found out what they were doing was wrong) if we went on the Deferred Charges Scheme where the person receivin...

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Well ! still reeling from it and not sure how it went. ( I think the following should be a straight pass but not from the PCT womans demeanor) Mam scored 2 severe, (behaviour & cognotion) 1 high (communication) 2 moderate (psychological ) & (drug therapies) 3 low & 2 no need. I was pushing f...

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1259314/250-000-victory-war-vet-sold-home-pay-care-NHS-charged-him.html

The payout comes after three families last year won a total of
£350,000 - with the family home sold in two cases - after being
wrongly denied Continuing Care. So far, more than £9million has
been recovered by solicitors representing 2,000 familie...

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Hi, I am fighting (with my wife) for funding for my mother-in-law and have been doing so for a number of years. I don't want to go into too much detail as at the moment we are in the appeal procedure and not paying any fees and I won't want to attract the attention of the PCT as this has been going on for several years with us dodging their attempts to force us into payment.

We do hav...

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Could anyone please tell me which disciplinary body deals with care home staff complaints rather than complaints against the actual home? I thought it was the nursing and midwifery council NMC but it seems that may only be for nurses.
Mike