(2) pursuant to the answer of 22 January 2007, Official Report, column 1594W, on National Framework for Continuing Care, which are the issues which need further consideration.
We do not know of any strategic health authorities that have already taken the step of combining their eligibility criteria for national health service continuing care.
We cannot comment further about specific issues at this stage. All the relevant issues will be set out in the Government’s response to the consultation, to be published as soon as the collation and analysis process has been completed.