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.