Care home nursing fee gets 7.4% boost

The fee paid to care homes to fund nursing costs will rise by 7.4% from April 2024, the government announced today.
The standard weekly NHS-funded nursing care (FNC) rate will rise from £219.71 to £235.88, while the higher rate will increase from £302.25 to £324.50, said the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
The higher rate is paid to the relatively few residents who received it when the three previous bands were merged in 2007.
The DHSC said the scale of the i