Article: Rising cost of free personalcare for elderly Free personal care for the elderly cost pounds237million last year, according to figures released yesterday.

Article: Minister's pledge on OAP free personal care
Evening Times;  November 18, 2002 ;     583 words ... ... reassured pensioners that all those entitled to free personal care will receive it. Mr Chisholm's promise ... that, if someone is assessed as needing free personal care, they will get free personal care." A spokesman for Mr McConnell added ...

Article: Free personal care for elderly sought; ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  November 7, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... older people free personal health care for ... in nursing and personal care charges for older ... nursing care and personal care because the two ... Government says that free personal and nursing care ... 20 an hour for personal care. It's just ...

Article: MLAs urged to back free personal care for ...
Belfast Telegraph;  May 30, 2007 ;     478 words ... ... that this Assembly calls for free personal care for the elderly, which was ... money where their mouth is on free personal care," Mr McCarthy said. "They ... in an amendment calling for free personal care to be included in the bill ...

Article: Argyll council comes good on free personal ...
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  June 14, 2007 ;     688 words ... ... over its long waiting list for free personal care for the elderly - and its unenviable ... And those waiting to receive personal care allowance from the council ... funding arrangements, said: "Free personal care should be introduced along ...

Article: Fresh blow to free personal care system
The Scotsman;  June 21, 2006 ;     461 words ... ... problems within the system of free personal care for the elderly emerged yesterday ... support for the policy and that free personal care was introduced at a time of ... affecting the elderly. The cost of free personal and nursing care has gone up ...

Article: Holyrood to end postcode lottery over free personal ...
The Scotsman;  May 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... would force councils to deliver free personal care to the elderly after MSPs voted ... preparation due to a loophole in the free personal care legislation of 2002. The vote ... by the UK government after free personal care was introduced. However ...

Article: Secret files reveal bitter Labour infighting over flagship policy ...
The Sunday Herald;  June 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... of Labour ministers opposed free personal care when the policy was backed ... ministers about the policy. Free personal care became a key issue in 2000 ... Henry McLeish, a supporter of free personal care. A parliamentary statement ...