Is a Personal Health Budget the best way to personalize health care?

Personal Health Budgets have been embraced dramatically by government ministers as a means of giving service users a wider choice, control, and flexibility.

A speech was given in 2010 around July, from Paul Burstow, the Minister of State for the care services, who had described them as the exemplar of what the government aims to achieve. Personal Health Budgets encloses what we represent, the aim is to change the relationship between the citizen and the government. To do less to people and more with them.

In most cases personal health budgets were used to enable people to live more independently, for example, they would take the recruitment process into their own hands and sort out who they want to work with themselves to provide the service of care needed. Personal Health Budgets can also be used to purchase mobility aids or provide travel to support groups or day centers. Others use their Personal Health Budgets to pay for their treatments such as physiotherapy and other therapies.

This is where Secure Personal Assistants come in to play, we offer the chance to ease all the excess drama and management off you, we use our skills to find the right personal assistant for you to run through the process to assist you and to find the right amount of care to help your needs.

For more information click here:

https://www.personalhealthbudgets.com/services-inner

Third-Party Payments:

If you want to take the hassle out of your finances, then you can take out a third-party agreement with us at Secure Personal Assistants. This means that we will be in charge of employing your own personal assistant to work closely with you, but you still have a level of control. We will be here to support with the funding side of it the training and the recruitment, also to help and provide tips to help you manage your own Personal Health Budget. Secure Personal Assistants are one of the top payroll agencies that offer to complete payroll solutions and agency payroll, taking away any stress from you.

Personal Health Budget Management:

If you do not wish to enter an arrangement with a third-party provider, there are two types of services Secure Personal Assistants has to offer. Firstly; Secure being the legal employer, this is through an Individual Serve Fund (ISF) which is similar to a third-party arrangement as outlined earlier, but the funding normally comes from a local authority. The other is an integrated Personal Budget (IPC). This is where the budget includes funding from the local authority and the NHS. Both of these works together to ensure your care and wellbeing needs are met.

What Secure Personal Assistants have to offer:

  • Direct Payments

  • Third-Party Payments

For more information on frequently asked questions on Personal Health Budgets click the link below for more NHS guidelines:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/personal-health-budgets/what-are-personal-health-budgets-

phbs/frequently-asked-questions-about-phbs/

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