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Article: Fresh blow to free personal care system
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- June 21, 2006
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FRESH evidence of problems within the system of free personal care
for the elderly emerged yesterday in a report warning of big
differences in the way councils assess needs and calculate costs.
The warnings came in a research report for the Executive, which
complained of a "lack of clarity" in how the costs should be
calculated and pointing out wide variations in the assessment of
need.
The report said that councils and ministers had not studied
several factors in sufficient detail, including the cost of making
assessments, the impact of changing patterns of care, and
improvements in quality.
The report by researchers at Stirling University warned: "A clear,
unambiguous definition of what ...