Care Homes

Question

We would like to know the average weekly rate you paid to care home providers for people aged 65+ for the financial years 2015-16 and 2016-17:

• Personal care, basic rate

• Personal care, dementia needs

• Nursing care, basic rate

• Nursing care, dementia needs.

These figures should be exclusive of any NHS continuing healthcare funding contributions.

If you pay a single rate regardless of needs for residential and/or nursing care, please supply as the ‘basic rate’.We would like to know how many care home places for people aged 65+ you funded for the financial years 2015-16 and 2016-17:

• Partly funded

• Wholly funded

Of those people aged 65+ residing in a care home that you wholly funded in 2015-16 and 2016-17:

• How many entered into a third-party top-up contract with you in 2015-16?

• How many entered into a third-party top-up contract with you in 2016-17?

Answer

Please see the information requested attached.