Both voluntary insurance and partnership schemes will be considered as possible long term care funding options, according to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.
Today, Lansley set out the terms of reference for the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support in Parliament. The Commission will be chaired by Andrew Dilnot, who is pro vice chancellor of Oxford University and was director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He will be joined by two further commissioners, Labour peer Lord Norman Warner and Dame Jo Williams who is currently acting chair of the Care Quality Commission. The Commission will report within the year and provide recommendations on: The best way to meet care and support costs as a partnership between individual...
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