Wanless suggests wider 'partnership' care payment

The report – entitled Securing Good Care for Older People - by government adviser Sir Derek Wanless says the potential to achieve 'value-for-money' from care for the elderly, including long-term care, is not currently being achieved and, unless society decides it is less inclined to support the same improvement in outcomes from social care as it does in health care, more needs to be spent privately. As a result, Wanless suggests a series of models as possible replacements to the current funding regime: Abandoning aspects of means-testing, for instance by offering free personal care as...