Long Term Care

Deloitte has warned that 2012 will be another tough year for the healthcare sector after the number of businesses going into administration grew sharply last year.

With white papers due this year on long-term care (Dilnot Review), sickness absence and also the Treasury's work on simple products, how much explicit help (not just macro changes to benefits and the NHS) would you want the government to give the industry?...

According to Laing & Buisson efforts to divert demand away from care homes appear to be running out of steam as the proportion of private payers rises.

Insurers and charities have urged the government and other party leaders to agree on substantial reforms to the social care system that is causing further damage to the NHS.

The Government is to work with industry to introduce "high tech Healthcare" for people with long term health conditions.

Britons are the least likely people in the world to think they need to save for future long-term care costs, an international survey has found.

The private sector will find opportunities opening as the UK moves NHS secondary healthcare services out of hospitals and into community based settings, according to Laing & Buisson.

Ron Wheatcroft discusses how three reports published in September demonstrate the difficulties in funding an ageing society.

Almost 30 million protection policies were in force last year with consumers receiving over £32m per day in benefits, according to the ABI.

Almost three quarters of people aged over 55 believe paying for long-term care (LTC) should not be an individual's responsibility, Aviva research suggests.