• Carers and patients are being failed by funding rules | Letters

    Carers and patients are being failed by funding rules | Letters
    Lynne Collins responds to a report about Kate Garraway’s struggle to get essential care for her husband and shares her own experienceYou report (11 September) on Kate Garraway “battling the system” to get her severely ill husband the care that he needs. Sadly, after decades of life-limiting illness, my husband died last year. I was his primary carer. I struggled to get an assessment for “continuing care” and, eventually, a nurse who had less knowledge than I did com

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