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Review of care products: key messages
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
The Department of Health invited representatives of the financial services industry to conduct a review of the market of products to fund care. These reports have identified opportunities for development of financial care products and the problems they might face. This short report presents key messages from the financial services industry, which briefly outlines the types of plans those entering care (mainly aged 75+), the ‘semi-retired’, and those of working age should make. It suggests the sorts of “products” that could help with care costs, e.g. Equity Release; and that certain conditions are also needed to create consumer demand for such products to make provision for care, for example helping people to access good financial advice. The review was supported by 3 industry-led working groups that looked a: consumers and the marketplace, housing and equity, and pensions and insurance. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social care funding: statement of intent
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH INSURERS
- Publisher:
- Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- London
The Department of Health invited representatives of the financial services industry to conduct a review of the care product market. The industry-led review found that the Care Bill went a long way to creating the right conditions, but that more work remained to be done. This statement of intent is a public commitment from the Department of Health and the financial services industry to work together to help people plan and prepare for the costs of their long term care. This includes creating the right conditions for the development of more financial care products and overcoming the barriers identified in t he industry led report into care products. (Edited publisher abstract)
NHS continuing health care: action following the Grogan judgement
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Queen on the application of Grogan and Bexley NHS Care Trust, SE London Strategic Health Authority(interested party), and Secretary of State for Health(interested party) challenged the refusal to provide fully funded NHS care and only paying for nursing costs. The Department of Health guidance, unlike predecessor guidance in 2001, emphasises that the question of whether a person’s primary need for care is a health need is the “overarching test” of their eligibility for continuing care. It calls on strategic health authorities to review criteria and re-assess people who may have been wrongly denied funding.
Personal care at home: a consultation on proposals for regulations and guidance
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document seeks views on the Government’s proposals for requiring councils in England with adult social services responsibilities (CASSRs) to provide personal care free of charge in certain circumstances to people with the highest needs. On 25 November, the Government introduced the Personal Care At Home Bill (“the Bill”) to enable this to happen. The consultation will last until 23rd February 2010, but the Department would welcome earlier responses, by 26th January.
Department of Health memorandum on the financing of community care arrangements after April 1993 and on individual choice of residential accommodation
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 32p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out the Government's plans for financing local authorities in England to implement new community care arrangements and the remaining sections of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. Also sets out the Government's intention to issue a statutory direction which will secure the right of individuals to be cared for in the residential care or nursing home of their choice after April 1993, and its intention to require authorities to consult independent sector representatives on community care plans.
Government's response to the House of Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change report 'Ready for ageing?': one year update: presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- TSO
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- London
This report summarises the steps taken by Government to address the challenges of an ageing society, following their response to the recommendations of the Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change in July 2014. It focuses on what the government is doing to help older people in the following areas. Helping people live fuller working lives by supporting later working, improving health and well-being of the workforce and providing back to work support. Putting in place a new pensions system and ensuring older people have a secure retirement income. Making the health and care system more personalised and sustainable. Supporting people to live independent lives in older age through improved planning and involvement in their local communities though providing improvements in housing and transport, tackling loneliness and encouraging social participation . The final section reports on the Government efforts to ensure that policies are sustainable and can meet the challenges of an ageing society. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social care: charging for residential accommodation
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- London
This is an update to Fairer Charging Policies guidance for non-residential social services and the Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide (CRAG). CRAG and the Fairer Charging Guidance provide statutory guidance to local authorities on how to interpret the regulations on charging for residential and non-residential care and support. This circular sets out the revised Personal Expenses Allowance (PEA), confirms that the capital limits and the savings credit disregards remain at their current level and reminds local authorities about the Directions on Choice of Accommodation and top-up fees, and statutory guidance on these. (Edited publisher abstract)
Personal care at home: a consultation on proposals for regulations and guidance: the government response
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document sets out the government’s response to the public consultation Personal Care at Home, which ran from 25 November 2009 to 23 February 2010. The original consultation sought the public’s views on the Government’s proposals for requiring councils in England with adult social services responsitilities (CASSRs) to provide personal care free of charge in certain circumstances to people with the highest needs, as introduced in the Personal Care At Home Bill.
Impact assessment of personal care at home: regulations and guidance
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the analysis and evidence for the Government’s proposed policy which would require councils in England with adult social services responsibilities (CASSRs) to provide personal care free of charge in certain circumstances to people with the highest needs. It provides a cost-benefit analysis of free personal care at home, and details specific impacts on small firms, health, rural areas, black and minority ethnic groups, people with disabilities, women and older people.
Long term care; the Government's response to the Health Committee's report on long-term care; presented to Parliament by Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty, July 1999
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London