Standard Local Authority Care Home Fees
Case reference FOI2022/00618
Published 30 May 2022
Request
We are looking to obtain an indication of the standard local authority fees Herefordshire Council pays for eligible elderly people in care homes or, if no standard flat rate is paid, an indication of the minimum/maximum/average rates paid for each category of care listed below.
2022/23 financial year rates:
1. Personal care / residential, elderly frail
2. Personal care / residential, elderly dementia
3. Nursing, elderly frail
4. Nursing, elderly dementia
Please could you also state if your quoted nursing fees are inclusive or exclusive of the current NHS-funded nursing care (FNC) contribution.
Response
Care Home Residential: £555.57 per week
Care Home Nursing: £633.74 per week (plus FNC)
The Service Area have advised that they do not recognise 'elderly people' as a specific category of service user, so they do not have a usual fee rate for older people.
They have advised that they differentiate service users by Primary Support Reason, not age, and do not operate a system of banding rates.
Nearly all of our placements into residential care homes are negotiated on an individual basis and in relation to the service user's care needs; a very small proportion of our placements are via 'block' contracts with providers and subject to the fee rates negotiated for those contracts.
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