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Welsh councils and health boards in pay dispute
A legal dispute between councils and health boards in Wales over who should pay for nurses who deliver social care in residential homes has reached the Supreme Court.
Currently, the NHS pays for people who need 24-hour care, while those with the ‘lowest need’ are funded privately or by the council. However, the Supreme Court is set to decide who should pay for those who need some, but not constant nursing care.
The issue has been under dispute for several years and independent care providers are still waiting to be paid. However, Care Forum Wales has warned the £1 million court case was a ‘waste of public money’.
Mario Kreft, chairman of Care Forum Wales, said: "The bottom line is that the money should have been paid and should have been paid a long time ago, it's crazy that we're still in this situation where people are arguing.
"In fact, it is an outrage and an affront to the people who need the services and their families, to those people who are providing them and are working in the service. Independent providers across Wales are entitled to this money for providing the care of older people.”
Kreft added: ”This is a pathetic and very expensive squabble. We'd like to have a huge outbreak of common sense in the town halls and health boards in Wales. The public deserve a fairer deal on this."
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