As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly apply for NHS Continuing Healthcare.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the NHS Continuing Healthcare information for England and note the contact details and current process for the relevant local NHS area.
   2. Gather care plans, hospital and GP letters, medication information, social care assessments, incident records and a diary of the person's actual day-to-day needs.
   3. Remove unnecessary identifiers, then paste the facts and documents' relevant extracts into a chatbot using the prompt above, keeping quotations and dates tied to their source.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the chronology, evidence checklist, care-needs summary and questions, and ask it to mark every uncertain or unsupported statement.
   5. Compare every drafted fact against the original records, correct omissions and wording that overstates or understates the person's needs, and add the source for each remaining claim.
   6. Send the checked summary and questions to the NHS Continuing Healthcare contact, GP, hospital team or social worker, and ask what local form or assessment route applies.
   7. Take the records and checked summary to the assessment or discussion, and ask the NHS team to explain any decision and the route for challenging it if necessary.

   Prompt

   Help me prepare for an NHS Continuing Healthcare application in England. Do not diagnose anyone, decide whether they are eligible, invent facts, or present your answer as professional advice. Ask me for missing information before drafting anything. Use only the facts I provide and clearly label anything uncertain.
   
   Create:
   1. A plain-language checklist of documents and evidence to gather.
   2. A dated chronology of the person's health, care and support needs.
   3. A structured summary under the types of care needs used in NHS Continuing Healthcare discussions, while making clear that this is not an eligibility decision.
   4. A list of factual questions to ask the person's GP, hospital team, social worker and NHS Continuing Healthcare team.
   5. A draft covering message or statement for the NHS team that describes needs, frequency, intensity, complexity and risks without exaggeration.
   6. A final fact-check table showing each claim, its source in my notes or documents, and what I still need to confirm.
   
   Details:
   - Country and NHS area: [England and local area]
   - Person's relationship to me: [relationship]
   - Current health conditions or care needs, using the person's own records where possible: [details]
   - Daily care and support required: [details]
   - Changes over time: [dates and details]
   - Risks, incidents and interventions: [details]
   - People and services involved: [details]
   - Documents already available: [list]
   
   Do not include NHS numbers, full dates of birth, addresses or other unnecessary identifying information. Tell me to check the current NHS guidance and local process before sending anything.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.