Irrespective of how fees are funded, even if fully supported and funded by the local authority, the personal choice of care provider is entirely yours and it is always crucial that you and your family make the choice that you prefer.

At Northwood we have trained nurses on duty 24 hours each day, which local authority owned care homes do not have and the social services should never offer you only a choice of local authority care homes. Your personal choice and preference is a very important part of this decision.

A wrong choice could prove quite traumatic if this leads to a need to move again later. We recommend you consider all of your options very carefully and always take into account that a well established reputation for delivering quality care is very important and not just the top show physical features of a property.

A further advantage at Northwood is that we do not have higher fee rates for those who self fund as we have standard fee rates regardless of the means of payment.

Northwood Nursing & Residential Care, Blackburn, Lancashire