title: Terminally ill man who did not meet NHS national care home criteria dies.
abstract: Bill Kiely, the 78-year-old pensioner who refused to leave Derbyshire Royal Infirmary because the NHS would not pay for a nursing home place for him, has died in the same hospital bed he had occupied since July. Mr Kiely had terminal lung cancer but was told by Derby City PCT that he did not meet the national criteria for a care home place under the terms of the new nationalframework for NHS-funded care introduced on October 1 ( page 25 ). They agreed to give him £101 per week only towards care costs. He rejected this saying, 'I can't even get out of bed without help, so I wouldn't be able to go to the bathroom if a nurse wasn't with me.'