NHS failing to promote scheme which allows elderly to claim back crippling care home costs

Health trusts in Britain have been accused of failing to publicise a compensation scheme that allows elderly people to claim back tens of thousands of pounds they were wrongly charged in care home fees.

Solicitors Farley Dwek believes the NHS is doing the bare minimum to communicate its Continuing Healthcare Fund that allows care home residents who qualify to recoup backdated care home fees they should not have been charged.

The final deadline for claims relating to the period from April 2011 to March 2012 is on March 31, and Farley Dwek has slammed primary care trusts for hiding the policy amid the countless pages on their websites.

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