{"id":55930,"date":"2015-03-26T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ac0b779f246341e2943352a9576bb711"},"modified":"2015-03-26T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T13:58:00","slug":"news-story-nhs-funded-nursing-care-bands-increased-for-2015-to-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55930","title":{"rendered":"News story: NHS funded nursing care rates increased from 1 April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The NHS contribution towards the costs of a place in a care home with nursing &#8211; for people assessed as requiring the help of a registered nurse &#8211; is being increased by 1% for 2015\/16.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 April 2015, the rates for eligible care home residents assessed to require the help of a registered nurse will be as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>standard rate will be increased to \u00a3112.00 per week<\/li>\n<li>higher rate will be increased to \u00a3154.14 per week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When NHS-funded nursing care was introduced in October 2001, the Department of Health made a commitment to regularly reassess the payment attached to the banding.<\/p>\n<p>These increases are in line with the increase in NHS nursing staff pay of 1% in 2015 to 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHS contribution towards the costs of a place in a care home with nursing is being increased by 1% for 2015 to 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55945,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55930\/revisions\/55945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}