Barbara Pointon obituary

Dementia campaigner who won a landmark case to receive NHS funding for care at homeNHS continuing healthcare, or CHC, is a funding programme for frail and ill people that can be worth thousands of pounds. Only those in care homes with trained nursing staff were eligible to receive it until 2004, when Barbara Pointon, who has died aged 80, won a landmark case. It established that CHC could be provided to people in any setting, including in their own homes, opening the door to thousands who might