Community Care Market News has conducted an annual survey of local authority fee rates for nursing and residential care every year since the community care reforms were introduced in 1993. Published alongside expert analysis in the pages of Laing & Buisson’s market leading newsletter, this exercise has become a well respected dataset enabling year on year comparisons and is used extensively by care providers and commissioners alike.

Baseline fee rates are defined as the gross weekly fee that local authorities are prepared to pay independent sector nursing and residential homes for the care of individuals for whom they accept financial responsibility. This year CCMN has focused on figures for elderly care and EMI care due to a growing trend among other client groups to avoid baseline fee rates as the amount they will pay are negotiated on a case by case basis. Fees are presented in the survey as a range, or as a minimum of a council pays a single rate and a maximum if they have a set ceiling.

The 2008/09 survey features date from 80% of the UK’s 209 local authorities.

The hard copy of the survey includes all the data collected, while the electronic version also features the analysis as published in the July issue of Community Care Market News.

The survey is essential reading for all care providers, councils and commissioners.

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