Why choose Hugh James for your nursing care claim?
Leading national experts in the
recovery of wrongly paid care home fees
- We have recovered over £20 million
in wrongly paid nursing home fees
- Our success and client stories are
regularly featured in the press as we are recognised as leading the
way in reclaiming fees wrongly paid care home fees (see our cases in the press)
- We have represented thousands of
individuals and families across England and Wales helping them get
their money back
- We work in partnership with many
of the leading older peoples' charities, helping us to ensure our
service meets the needs of the people we, and the charities,
represent
- Unlike many other companies we are
a firm of solicitors regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory
Authority (SRA) and comply with the solicitors code of conduct. The
Hugh James nursing care team is the leading and most experienced
team in the niche area of continuing healthcare, giving you
complete peace of mind that your case is being dealt with by fully
qualified lawyers who specialise in reclaiming nursing and care
home fees
- We promise to deal with your claim
from start to finish and will not pass your claim on to a third
party. We offer a complete service for you with dedicated team
members to contact.
- In recognition of our expertise
and work in this area we have recently been
awarded an excellence award from the Law Society.
Hugh James nursing care team
experience
Nursing care fees recovery is a
specialist service offered by Hugh James to represent individuals
(or the estate of those who have died) in challenging current and
retrospective decisions to refuse NHS funded continuing healthcare
to long-term nursing home residents.
We currently act for over 2,000
clients from both England and Wales, including instructions on
behalf of elderly people in care homes, hospital and estates. In
the last 30 months, we have successfully recovered over £20 million
in wrongly paid nursing home fees, as well as saving of future
fees.
The team regularly give
presentations on the subject of continuing care, particularly to
the voluntary sector including Alzheimer’s Society and Age Cymru.
The solicitors in the team are also supervising solicitors for the
Cardiff
Law School pro bono scheme in continuing healthcare and a
member of Solicitors for the Elderly.
Hugh James were the solicitors
involved in the publicised case of the Public Services Ombudsman
for Wales report criticising Cardiff Local Health Board’s decision
not to fund nursing home fees in the case of Mrs Eileen Puc; successful
reimbursement of nursing home fees for Mrs Hilda Atkinson,
Mr Harry Denham and Mrs Marjorie Eyton-Jones and
the recently reported war vetron Leslie Terry.
For more on our successful cases
see our cases in the press and also our case
studies page.