Retrospective eligibility
To claim retrospective eligibility, we need to show that an individual’s health and nursing care needs were more than what a social services department could provide.
If that’s the case, then their primary need would be for health and they would have been entitled to full NHS funding. In England we can consider unassessed period of care from April 2012 and in Wales a claim can be no longer than 12 months from the date an application is made.