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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.
A delicate balance? Health and social care spending in Wales
- Authors:
- LUCHINSKAYA Daria, OGLE Joseph, TRICKEY Michael
- Publisher:
- Wales Public Services 2025
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This briefing note looks at trends in public spending on health and local authority funded adult social care in Wales since 2009-10, with some comparisons with the other UK nations. It reports that the total health and social service spend per head in Wales was higher than that of England in 2015-16. Over the period 2009-10 to 2015-16, day-to-day spending on local authority-organised adult social services in Wales remained broadly flat in real terms, but the increasing over-65 population means that spending per older person has fallen by over 12% in real terms. The briefing concludes that spending may need to increase by at least £129 million (23%) between 2015-16 and 2020-21 to get back to the equivalent spend per-head in 2009-10, which amounts to a 2.5% year-on-year increase. (Edited publisher abstract)
Survey five: the state of the NHS and social care ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review
- Author:
- NUFFIELD TRUST
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Trust
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
Summarises the views of health and care leaders on the pressures facing the NHS and social care ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review. Although most respondents are involved in planning for reduced spending, many leaders do not see how the efficiency savings required to free up an additional £22 billion for the NHS can be achieved: two thirds of survey respondents are not confident that their area has a credible local plan to make the efficiency savings needed this year, with half of respondents saying their area’s savings plans are dependent on reducing agency staff spend. Asked to choose from a list which non-NHS public service most deserved to be ring-fenced, 53.3 per cent selected spending on older people's social care: many panellists expressed the view that NHS and social care budgets should be viewed as being interdependent. 96 per cent of respondents thought it should be a high or moderate priority to deliver improved urgent seven-day services in line with NHS England clinical standards: the quality benefits of seven-day urgent services were clear to respondents; the cost implications less so. However, only 37.8 per cent believed seven-day elective services should be a high or moderate priority. (Edited publisher abstract)
Health difficulties: how to cope with changing needs
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The paper explains what help is available for older people from the local Council and the NHS if anyone develops difficulties due to ill-health or disability. This includes support inside and outside the home and financial assistance.
It's in the definition
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.3.03, 2003, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In 1999, an Appeal Court case ruling in the Coughlan suggested that continuing care for older and disabled people should in many cases, be paid for by the NHS. Looks at how, four years later, the confusion continues.
Free nursing care: do the sums add up
- Author:
- PEARCE Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.10.01, 2001, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The arrival of free nursing care in England has brought with it fears that the funding pot will need a fair amount of topping up. Checks the figures.
The long and the short of it
- Author:
- HUNTER Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 2.11.95, 1995, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The case for and against the NHS providing long-term care was put with passion by both sides in the HSJ/Glaxo debate. Reports on the discussion which featured contributions from: Anna Coote, William Laing, Lionel Joyce and Sally Greengross.
Who foots the bill
- Author:
- CHAMBERLAIN Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.9.93, 1993, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses the confusion over funding of nursing home patients; whether people that have been discharged into the community are still entitled to social security benefits to pay their nursing home fees or whether the NHS is responsible.
Briefing: Health and care of older people in England 2019
- Author:
- AGE UK
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 70
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on official statistics and analysis from Age UK, this report provides an overview of how services are functioning for older people across the NHS and social care. It highlights the ageing population and increasing levels of complex health and care needs. It also looks at the funding pressures on social care crisis, the implications of funding cuts for the provision of services and on older people and their families. The report finds that a growing and ageing population means demand for care services is increasing, whilst social care spending per head of the adult population has fell in real terms between 2010/11 and 2017/18, the cost of providing care is rising. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social care and health: funding and cost pressure analysis
- Author:
- RANASINGHE Jude
- Publisher:
- LG Futures
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 59
- Place of publication:
- Hockliffe
Maps social care and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) funding to local authority boundaries. The research examines the comparative levels of funding and potential demand and cost pressures for County Council Network members compared to other authority types. It covers older people’s social care funding and demand, NHS and Better Care Fund funding, public health funding and total funding. Key findings include: CCN member councils will see their 65+ population grow by 2 per cent per year until 2020, faster than any other local authority type; CCN member councils receive 44 per cent less cash funding per head compared to the national average, less than London Boroughs (61 per cent) and Metropolitan Boroughs (53 per cent); on average CCN member councils have witnessed the largest reductions in ASC funding (-22.9 per cent) compared to other local authority types, and higher reductions in estimated cash funding (20.1 per cent) than the national average; there is evidence that demand has grown in counties, while it has declined across other parts of England; outside of London, delayed discharges are sufficiently higher in counties than other parts of the sector and are costing local health economies enormous extra costs; there is a projected increase of 14.8 per cent in the number of people in CCN authorities with a limiting long term illness by 2020-21; counties receive significantly less CCG funding (£1.2bn) based on their total population of 25.4 million and national average allocations. In total, it is calculated that CCN member councils receive £1.98bn less combined funding for health and social care when compared to other local authority types. (Edited publisher abstract)