Government Must Make Care Funding a Top priority

Failing Social Care Services are robbing the elderly of their dignity according to an open letter to the Prime Minister published in todays (3rd January 2012) Daily Telegraph.

The letter has been signed by 72 care sector leaders including Age UK, Crossroads Care and the Citizens Advice Bureau together with peers, members of the British Medical Association and the NHS confederation. It explains how the current care system is failing "at huge cost to the dignity and independence of older and disabled people, but also to our society, family life and the economy."

It also points out the economic cost in terms of people who are forced to leave work to provide care for a relative as well as the number of avoidable admissions to NHS hospitals.

The letter urges the Prime Minister to resume all party talks on the future of care funding to consider the future of care funding and how those costs will be met. Especially in light of the promise following the Dilnot report into care funding, to issue a White Paper in the Spring.

The full text of the letter can be read here.

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1 responses to 'Government Must Make Care Funding a Top priority'

mrs. heal

Added 19-Apr-2012 08:13

my mother is in the process of having her house taken off her to pay for her fees.I have also found it very distressing to see this happen to her life long belongings.She has always been thrifty and never claimed anything only her pension.Her house isn\\\’t worth a great deal of money,so would only pay for about two years at the most.It makes me wonder if it is worth being honest about your assets to the authorities,if you could get away withit like many people do.

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