So, how deep is your pain?, William Laing offers his take on this year’s baseline fee rate survey

This month’s CCMN gives us confirmation, if any were needed, of exactly how punishing this April’s round of local authority care home fee increases has been – an average uplift of just 0.5% for elderly care across England and 0.8% for the UK as a whole, nudged up by some marginally higher settlements in Scotland…