Hugh James comments in the press

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Our legal experts are often asked in the press to comment on the topical subject of nursing care. See below:

• Lisa Morgan shares her views in Families facing “excessive delays” in reclaiming for healthcare costs
  Wales Online, August 2018
  A new report from the Public Ombudsman for Wales has found that patients and their families who have incorrectly paid up to hundreds of thousands of pounds in healthcare costs are facing “excessive delays” in getting their money back.
• ‘I reclaimed £226,559 in care fees. Here’s how you can too’
  Sunday Times, July 2017
  The Sunday Times Money section meet a Hugh James Nursing Care client.
• Lisa Morgan talks to the Sunday Times about care funding
  Sunday Times, February 2016
  This article looks at the struggle many vulnerable and elderly people face when trying to secure Continuing Healthcare.
• NHS chiefs set to face £100m bill for care fees error
  Yorkshire Post, April 2013
  Partner Lisa James discusses how more resources need to be put in place and how there are some 60,000 outstanding nursing care cases across the country.

• Continuing Healthcare: deadline looms for ‘secret’ care fund
  The Observer, August 2012
  Partner Lisa Morgan discusses the expense of care homes and the lack of awareness surrounding NHS Continuing Healthcare.

• Elderly lose fortune in shake-up of care
  Express.co.uk, July 2012
  Lisa Morgan, of the specialist nursing care team at law firm Hugh James, comments on the lack of ­information about the new deadline for nursing care claims.

• Partner, Lisa Morgan to appear on BBC Wales Week In Week Out
  BBC Wales Week In Week Out, June 2012
  Hugh James Partner Lisa Morgan interviewed for BBC Week In Week Out programme to highlight the issues faced by families meeting the cost of care home fees in Wales.

• Act now to claim unfair care home fees as Department of Health sets a new deadline
  Daily Mail, April 2012
  Lisa Morgan, from Hugh James specialist nursing care team, urges people to act now to beat the deadline to reclaim wrongly paid care fees.

• Postcode lottery for care fees of neediest 
  Which? magazine, March 2011
  Lisa Morgan, from the specialist nursing care team at Hugh James, turned detective for the Which? team and searched 10 randomly selected Primary Care Trust and health board websites across the UK for information about accessing funding.

• “35 women under 35 2011 Power List”
  Glamour magazine, February 2011
  Lisa Morgan, at Hugh James, has been named as one of Glamour magazine’s ‘35 Women Under 35’ on their 2011 Power List. This puts 32-year-old Ms Morgan amongst the ranks of Keira Knightley, Jessica Ennis and Kate Middleton, who have all made it onto this year’s list.

• The Cost of Caring 
  ITV Tonight Programme, November 2010
  Lisa Morgan interviewed for ITV Tonight programme to highlight cost of caring for our elderly in nursing homes.

• Cardiff solicitor wins Law Society junior lawyer award
  BBC News, October 2010
  Lisa Morgan has been named the Law Society’s junior lawyer of the year after helping to reclaim £10m in wrongly paid care home fees.

• Cardiff lawyer shortlisted for Law Society’s Excellence Awards
  Western Mail, October 2010
  Lisa Morgan has been shortlisted for a top award at the most prestigious ceremony in the legal calendar.

• Thousands claiming for costs of loved one’s care
  Western Mail, October 2010.
  Western Mail report almost 2,500 families are claiming they are owed tens of thousands of pounds after the NHS refused to pay for a loved one’s care, Lisa Morgan comments.

• Call to monitor new care funding guidelines
  Western Mail, August 2010.
  New guidelines could increase the number of people in Wales who are eligible for NHS-funded continuing care, Lisa Morgan comments.

• £250,000 victory for war vet who sold home to pay care bill that NHS should never have charged him
  Daily Mail, March 2010.
  The family of a war veteran suffering from Alzheimer’s has won more than £250,000 from the NHS for nursing home fees he should never have been charged. Leslie Terry’s solicitor Lisa Morgan comments.

• Elderly still forced to sell homes as health boards flout rules
  Daily Mail, March 2010.
  Daily Mail report thats sick, elderly people are still being forced to sell their homes and use their life savings to pay for their care when the NHS should be picking up the bill, Lisa Morgan comments.

• Chance to have a say on care proposals
  South Wales Echo, February 2010.
  Age Concern Cymru and Help the Aged in Wales have teamed up with Hugh James solicitors to hold a meeting for older people in Cardiff on February 9 to help them comment on proposals about how they pay for care.

• Massive delay for claims to reimburse cash for nurse care
  Western Mail, January 2010
  Families face the prospect of a 14-year wait to learn whether the NHS will reimburse wrongly-paid nursing care fees. Lisa Morgan comments that the NHS must employ more assessors and panel members to speed up the process.