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Personal health budgets
— the shape of things to come? | | Corporate Author | NHS Confederation |
| Publisher | The NHS Confederation, London, 2009 |
| Pages | 16 pp |
| Source | Download: www.nhsconfed.org/publications NHS Confederation Publications 0870 444 5841. |
| Keywords | Health services ; Needs [elderly] ; Finance [care] ; Social policy ; Reports. |
| Annotation | The NHS Next Stage Review endorsed the proposal to include NHS funding within personal budgets, allowing people "to choose support which ensures their well-being and enables independent living". Two recent papers have warned that if individual budgets (IBs) only apply to social care, "the potential power of personalisation diminished" although "individual budgets could weaken the NHS". Thus, it is timely to consider further the key issues around the development of personal health budgets before piloting gets underway fully. This report follows two seminars, one held with key opinion leaders and one with NHS Confederation members. It explores the potential and benefits of personalisation, and is designed to stimulate further debate on how the development will affect mainstream commissioning and provision of NHS services. It sets out what we mean by personalised health budgets and what we already know about them, including evidence of similar experiences in Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. The second half explores the possible impact on the existing healthcare system and what still needs to be considered. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090223001 E |
| Classmark | L: IK: QC: TM2: 6K |
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