Lord Darzi announced in his Next Stage Review of the NHS that the Department will launch in 2009 a pilot of personal health budgets, as a way of giving patients greater control over the services they receive and the providers from which they receive services. The pilots will draw on the experience of other health systems and in social care.
Personal budgets sit in a spectrum of policies of personalisation, which also includes choice and care planning. As the Prime Minister said in the preface to the Next Stage Review:
‘We need a more personalised NHS, responsive to each of us as individuals … giving us real control and real choices over our care and our lives.’
The Personal Health Budgets project team is working to develop the outline for the pilot scheme and in doing so is working with a wide range of people. We want to hear from anyone who would like to share their experiences in this area and help shape the project. We are particularly interested to hear from organisations, users or carers who are already trying out personal health budgets.
Personal health budgets: first steps
In January 2009 the Department published Personal health budgets: first steps. This document sets out the principles of personal health budgets, reports on early lessons and invites expressions of interest in the pilot programme.
- Personal health budgets: first steps
Background information
For additional background information, you might find the information sheets below and the links on the right to related policies and projects helpful.
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