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Chapter 3: The Partial Answer: NHS-funded Nursing Care

7 sources. Checked September 2026.

Every claim in this chapter is traced to the source behind it. Below is each one, numbered as it appears in the book, with a link that opens the original.

  1. NHS-funded Nursing Care weekly rate. From 1 April 2026, in the 2026/27 tax year, this is £267.68 a week in England. Check the current figure at [ageingparent.co.uk/s/fnc-rate-2026-27](https://ageingparent.co.uk/s/fnc-rate-2026-27) — this changes each April.
    www.gov.uk/government/news/better-community-care-thanks-to-nursing-funding-boost
  2. National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care (July 2022, revised; corrected July 2023), on the three-part eligibility test for NHS-funded Nursing Care, and on a decision only being possible once an NHS Continuing Healthcare decision has been made and recorded. The NHS-funded Nursing Care Practice Guidance (Department of Health and Social Care, July 2022, implemented 1 July 2022\) sets out the operational detail behind this test.
    www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-framework-for-nhs-continuing-healthcare-and-nhs-funded-nursing-care · www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-funded-nursing-care-practice/nhs-funded-nursing-care-practice-guidance
  3. National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care, on NHS-funded Nursing Care as an NHS-funded service that is not subject to a financial assessment or a contribution from your parent, and on its availability to a self-funding care home resident on the same basis as anyone else.
    www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-framework-for-nhs-continuing-healthcare-and-nhs-funded-nursing-care
  4. National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care, on the NHS paying the weekly rate directly to the care home, and the default expectation that your parent's own fee falls by the same amount, unless a different contracting arrangement is in place.
    www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-framework-for-nhs-continuing-healthcare-and-nhs-funded-nursing-care
  5. Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, decision 19 004 419: a care home was found at fault for a contract that was silent on how NHS-funded Nursing Care would be treated, and was ordered to refund the FNC payment it had received to the resident's estate, and to clarify its information for residents. This is one decision, not a rule that applies automatically to every contract — search the Ombudsman's own decisions database for others like it, since individual decisions are not a substitute for your parent's own contract.
    www.lgo.org.uk/decisions/adult-care-services/charging/19-004-419 · www.lgo.org.uk/decisions
  6. NHS-funded Nursing Care Practice Guidance (Department of Health and Social Care, July 2022), on NHS-funded Nursing Care being considered as a continuation of the same Checklist and Decision Support Tool process used for the NHS Continuing Healthcare decision, without your parent needing to make a separate application in the normal case.
    www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-funded-nursing-care-practice/nhs-funded-nursing-care-practice-guidance
  7. National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care, on review of NHS-funded Nursing Care at around 3 months after the decision and then at least annually, with each review required to reconsider whether your parent may now be eligible for full NHS Continuing Healthcare.
    www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-framework-for-nhs-continuing-healthcare-and-nhs-funded-nursing-care

Sources for the other chapters are listed at ageingparent.co.uk/sources/who-pays. Free guides on the topics in this book are at ageingparent.co.uk.