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Most families have never added it up. Four questions, about twenty seconds, and nothing you enter is sent anywhere — it runs entirely in your browser.
An approximate month is fine.
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This shows what has been spent. Whether any of it should have been NHS-funded is a separate question, decided by a clinical assessment of care needs — not by the amount. This tool cannot and does not tell you that you have a claim.
The defaults are UK averages for self-funders: £1,298 a week for residential care and £1,535 a week for nursing care, uplifted for London and the South East where fees typically run 20–30% above the national average. Enter the real figure from the invoice for an accurate total.
NHS-funded Nursing Care is shown at the standard rate of £267.68 a week from 1 April 2026. That is a contribution towards the registered-nurse element of care only — it is not the same as Continuing Healthcare, which covers the entire bill including accommodation.
Residential care averages around £67,496 a year for a self-funder; nursing care around £79,820. The capital threshold above which you pay for your own care in England is £23,250 — unchanged since 2010, while fees rose roughly 10% in the single year to December 2025.
None of that determines eligibility. But it does explain why so many families are paying for care that may never have been theirs to fund, and why it is worth checking whether an assessment was ever properly done.
A free, no-obligation review of whether there is a claim worth pursuing — and an honest answer if there is not.
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