APPENDIX V
Laing and Buisson Study for Cambridgeshire
County Council on the actual costs of residential and nursing
home care across Cambridgeshire
The table below summarises the estimated "actual
costs" of providing care services for each client type in
each of the five districts of Cambridgeshire, based on survey
data entered as at 12 October 2001. Within each client group,
the sole source of inter-district variation is the cost of land.
SUMMARY OF "ACTUAL COSTS", HOMES
MEETING ALL PHYSICAL STANDARDS REQUIRED BY REGULATORY AND COMMISSIONING
AGENCIES
| |
Nursing, | Residential,
| Residential, |
| | Older or EMI
| Older | EMI
|
| | £ per week
| £ per week |
£ per week |
| Cambridge City | 504
| 392 | 461
|
| South Cambridgeshire | 492
| 380 | 449
|
| East Cambridgeshire | 469
| 357 | 425
|
| Huntingdon | 475
| 363 | 432
|
| Fenland | 454
| 342 | 411
|
| Cambridgeshire average | 478
| 367 | 435
|
The table below shows the estimated actual cost and the average
fee paid by Cambridgeshire County
Council.
COMPARISON BETWEEN "ACTUAL COST" ESTIMATE FOR
THE WHOLE OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND AVERAGE GROSS FEES PAID BY CAMBRIDGESHIRE
| |
| Nursing | Residential
|
| |
| £ per week |
£ per week |
| Older people | Estimated "Actual Cost"
| 478 | 366
|
| | Average fee paid by Cambridgeshire
| 394 | 289
|
| EMI | Estimated "Actual Cost"
| 478 | 435
|
| | Average fee paid by Cambridgeshire
| 378 | 327
|
|
