The Government Changes Tune on Care Fees
Another U-Turn, about time realisation set in and the coalition reflect on the fact they haven’t got a clue about running the country!
It seems that the Coalition Government is performing another U-turn. The Prime Minister, it emerges, is personally insisting that the Dilnot Report proposals (and primarily the introduction of a cap on individual contributions of £35,000) are implemented. It is rare that the Conservative Party is to be found advocating social progress, but it should be welcomed. It seemed for a while that the Treasury would succeed in reducing state subsidy to a level that would have left the problems caused by hefty care home fees unsolved.
However, there is the matter of where the Coalition will find the £2 billion a year to fund these proposals. I sincerely hope that rumours alleging NHS funding will be used to fill the gap are false. The NHS is facing real terms cuts already, and any further reductions will be noticed by patients as waiting lists grow ever longer, staff become ever more overstretched…
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