Stopping the blame game around delayed transfers of care The ongoing row about the Better Care Fund and delayed transfers of care has flared again during a debate in the House of Commons on social care. Labour MP, and former shadow Care Minister, Liz Kendall said that one local county council, Leicestershire, feared it could lose £22 million in ‘fines’ after it was judged to be one of the ‘poorest performers’ in reducing delayed transfers of care (DTOCs).
The current Care Minister, Jackie Doyle-Price, did not like the word ‘fine’, preferring to say that the government ‘reserved the right to review allocations’ but – as current Labour shadow Barbara Keeley observed – the clear implication was that this review would be downwards and not upwards. The King's Fund
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