James Urquhart-Burton

Head of Continuing Healthcare Claims

info@winstonsolicitors.co.uk

James is an experienced elderly client solicitor with a passion and understanding of the legal challenges faced by older people and their families. As an expert in NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding, he uses his skills and experience to help families navigate the assessment and appeals process, to maximise their chance of obtaining the right funding for their care. As well as recovering wrongly paid care fees, James also assists the families of people who were entitled to funding but did not receive it before passing away.

James is passionate about supporting people about their rights, providing effective advocacy and securing lifechanging results for his clients and their families.

The highlight of his career was securing an NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding award following an Independent Review Panel, which resulted in payment of over £350,000 in restitution for wrongly paid care costs.

Outside work James enjoys cooking, and spending time with family and friends and with a degree in Spanish, he often holidays in Spain to hone his language skills.

Lifetime Lawyers accreditation (Monika Volsing)

Client feedback

When Mum needed the system most that she had been paying into all her life she was failed by countless people and departments, assessments not completed, lost files, appointments not kept, delay after delay and on. I had a gut feeling that procedures weren't being followed and began my quest for the truth in her memory. I found James at 'Winston Solicitors' who helped us take on the system and prove that Mum was indeed entitled to CHC Funding. Throughout the case he was relentless in his pursuit to seek out the truth and hold those accountable who failed Mum. He gave us regular updates and discussed every step with us along the way, I cannot recommend him highly enough to anyone who has found themselves in this dreadful position in traumatic times with their loved ones. - August 2025

A Ellis, Manchester