June 29, 2007
UK: 60,000 elderly who need social care will not qualify in shake-up branded 'weak'
More than 60,000 desperately ill and injured people will miss out on free help from the Health Service under a shake-up in care home funding, charities have warned. They will be left facing huge care bills under new rules which set down a test to decide who is sick enough to qualify to have their care home costs met by the NHS, they said.