Long Term Care

The majority of the population is significantly overestimating the risk of needing long term care and want an alternative to residential care, according to research by Audley Retirement.

Integrating social care with general practices, community nurses, hospitals and social services can improve the quality of care for patients, a study by the Department of Health has found.

Care homes are struggling to provide quality care for residents with complex medical conditions, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called for regulatory changes on financial products in the long term care sector.

The Health Committee report on Social Care is making recommendations having failed to understand the technicalities behind the Dilnot Report, Partnership has said.

MPs on the Health Select Committee (HSC) have urged the government to stimulate the long term care (LTC) insurance market.

The government is expected to recommend a cap on long-term care (LTC) fees of between £50,000 and £60,000, according to a report.

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.