Starting off with Personal Health Budgets
Personal Health budgets are available to service users who have Complex needs and have continuing care, these funds come from either the NHS or your elected Clinical Commission Group (CCG).
For clients who are under continuing care, a Person Health Budget which you can use to find carers, train carers and pay your carers through this to fit the right needs of the service user. People who have a Personal Health Budget (PHB) in place can either run everything themselves or have a healthcare provider to help consult them and run everything such as training and payments for you.
Here at Secure Healthcare Solutions, we have our own consultancy and administration service called Secure Personal Assistants, we offer the help of managing your Personal Health Budget working alongside the CCG and the Care Quality Commission. We offer your own personal assistant or team of personal assistants to arrange and manage your care at home.
For more information on our services please click the link below:
https://www.personalhealthbudgets.com/about
A Personal Health budget can also allow you to purchase other services and equipment to help better the service of care which is set in the parameters by the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) The Funding can vary with numerous of restrictions depending on where you live.
There are some disadvantages to having a Personal Health Budget. Some families of the service users may find out that it is very hard to manage the carers themselves and find out that it’s extra work that they may be struggling with. Others run into difficulties hiring the right carers for a long period of time. This is where Secure Personal Assistants comes into play, we are here to support and make your life easier and manage this all for you to ease off the extra work on you.
Benefits of having a Personal Health Budget:
Managed by a third party (agency)
Manged by the NHS Commissioner
Self-Managed through direct payment
Personal Budgets Cannot be used for:
Part-Fund Treatment with patients’ personal money
Fund primary medical and emergency services
Fund anything illegal or be put towards gambling, debt repayment, alcohol or Tobacco
Pay for carers who live with the PHB holder AND are also relatives (only in an exceptional circumstance)
Resources that can help:
https://mycarebudget.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page is a page that is run by parents who have Personal Health Budgets.
My Care Budget is a Wiki-run page which is run by parents who manage Personal Health Budgets. It contains guides in-depth, it has Template letters and advice to get you started.
For more information and a consultancy for a Personal Health Budget, click the link below for more information and speak to one of our advisors:
https://www.personalhealthbudgets.com/about