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.
3 Ways to manage a Personal Health Budget:
A Personal Health Budget is a method of payment and management to give people more of a choice and control over the type of person-centered care they have and how its arranged. A Personal Health Budget is an amount of money to provide support to a personally identified care and wellbeing needs, which is set up and planned between the person, or the individual’s representative and the CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group).
Becoming a Personal Health Budget holder:
Personal Health Budgets offer many different individuals a choice on which type of care and services they will get and what they will have control over, such as the money spent on their healthcare.
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.