Care Home Funding

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 3 July 2024.

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Photo of Dawn Bowden Dawn Bowden Labour 2:11, 3 July 2024

I thank Mark Isherwood for that question. I refer you back to the answer I gave to Llyr Gruffydd, which was relating to the overall process for the setting of care home fees. You've come—. Sorry, Llyr, I didn't address the point you raised about continuing healthcare, which I will do now in response to Mark's question. Continuing healthcare and the setting of policy around that is a matter for the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, but what I would say is it is the responsibility of the health board to set the appropriate rates of fees for providers under the continuing healthcare. There isn't a national methodology for agreeing the CHC rate. That weekly rate is paid by the health board for CHC, and it might vary depending on the needs assessment for the individual that is in receipt of that care. So, the care that's required and the residential care fee rates are set in accordance with the particular needs.

I will speak further to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care about that, because, of course, there is an overlap. The CHC fund setting is not in my portfolio; care homes fee setting is. So, we'll have a conversation, and I'm sure we'll be able to get something together and submit it to the Senedd, or circulate it to Members, so that they have a better understanding of what's going on.