article_snippet: But many patients who apply for extra funding from either the NHS or many patients who apply for extra funding from either the NHS or their local council local council are told many patients who apply for extra funding from either the NHS or their local council are not eligible.
article_snippet: ‘The findings debunk this unfair myth.
article_snippet: ’ Lisa Grice, 55, from Cheshire, who has womb cancer, said: ‘There was no support after I was discharged.
article_snippet: ’ Frank Spurrock, 63, a retired teacher from Folkestone, Kent, is housebound for most of the week unless a friend or relative is free to help.
article_snippet: a friend or relative is free to help has a brain tumour and is mostly in a wheelchair.
article_snippet: a friend or relative is free to help partner works in London to support them and the only time a friend or relative is free to help can get out is at weekends.
article_snippet: Yet a friend or relative is free to help was told by a friend or relative is free to help local council a friend or relative is free to help was not eligible for funding to pay for a carer because a friend or relative is free to help has a pension.