Operational Guidance Lifetime Cap on Care Costs - Or Smoke and Mirrors?

On the 4 March, the Government issued a number of papers following the Health and Social Care Paper: ‘Operational Guidance to Implement a Lifetime cap on care costs, Supporting Local Preparation, and Implementing the Cap on Care Costs. The first is a consultation paper, the latter two draft guidance. The first document runs to 27 pages and while the second is mercifully short, the third runs to 56 pages. In truth there is much duplication and very little new information. What is new, most in the industry could have guessed or feared. What is certainly not new is the statement, repe...