Long Term Care

A teenager has been given permission to take Worcestershire County Council to a full Judicial Review over the use of a Maximum Expenditure Policy

The Queen has said the hoped-for long term care legislation, through the Health and Social Care Bill, is to be passed in the 2013/2014 Parliamentary session.

There is an urgent need to assess long term care in terms of the benefits it brings, rather than its costs, if funding allocation arguments in local councils are to be won, experts have said.

Symponia has called today's social care announcement "a clever pre-budget manoeuvre to create a seemingly positive headline and divert attention away from the ailing coalition, during Budget week."

Peter Barnett examines the consequences of the Governments Long Term Care announcement

Friends Life is launching of a suite of online tools for advisers to assist them in advising clients on long term care solutions, particularly those receiving or about to receive care.

The ‘real cost' for elderly care could be over £200,000 if government raise the care cap to £75,000, warns Partnership.

Since Andrew Dilnot published his Fairer Care Funding report in July 2011, much has been written and said about it by the press, by charities and by politicians on all sides.

Symponia, the network for care fees planning advisers, is launching a sister company, Symponia Blu, designed to serve the needs of the ‘children' of elderly clients - often elderly themselves.

More evidence on the cost effectiveness of telehealth is needed to help make services more attractive to NHS commissioners, the Department of Health (DH) has warned.