6 July 2011
On Monday Andrew Lansley, Secretary of State for Health, responded to the Dilnot report Funding of Care and Support (England), saying, “The Government will have to consider the recommendations carefully against other funding priorities and calls on our constrained resources.”
In the following extract from Hansard, he said the Government will “consider the review team’s proposals in detail before consulting stakeholders on the way forward later this summer” with “engagement in the autumn, publishing a response and carrying out other related work on palliative care in the spring, publishing a White Paper and a progress report on funding reform and legislating at the first available opportunity thereafter.”
Yesterday in a press release posted on the Labour party website, John Healey, Shadow Health Secretary, responded: “Our concern is to protect the one in ten of us who have to pay over £100 000 for the costs of care in older age, as well as those hardworking people on modest incomes more likely to care for relatives and less likely to get help in doing so. And we must also protect people from the lottery of where they live not what they need determining their care assessments and level of support.”
