Getting It right for a Personal Health Budgets
The NHS has estimated by the year 2024 the number of patients benefitting from Personal Health Budgets will have increased, to around 200,00 but results show that implementation of Personal Health Budgets hasn’t always been smooth sailing. So to ensure that the tools and funds are used effectively for the users and not burdened on staff, it is important that commissioners get the right.
The “right” for a Personal Health Budget
On the 1st of April, it marked the first day in the next stage in the Personal Health Budget Journeys, which, after a vast series of trials and pilots, it is now available nationally. NHS England announced that from 1st April 2014 patients will have the right to request a Personal Health Budget which is as it sounds, an agreed amount which is assessed by the CHC team. The Personal Health budget is made available to the holder of the Personal Health Budget.
A Personal Health Budget (PHB) can come in a form in either a notional budget, direct payments or a third-party arrangement. Secure Personal Assistants comes in and can arrange and manage the support needed to help the Personal Health Budget.