Free Personal and Nursing Care: Methodology and background information, 2022-23

All self-funding care home residents, who pay for their own care, and have been assessed as requiring personal and / or nursing care services are entitled to payments to cover the costs of providing these services. The rates of payment are set nationally and Local Authorities make these payments directly to the care provider on behalf of the individual. In 2022-23 these rates were set at £212.85 per week for personal care and £95.80 per week for nursing care.

The weekly personal and nursing care payments have increased over time. Figure 1 shows the value of payments between 2003-04 and 2021-22.

Figure 1: Weekly FPC and FNC payments, from 2003-04 to 2022-23