Personal health budgets: early experiences of budget holders. Fourth interim report

TY - BOOK

T1 - Personal health budgets

T2 - early experiences of budget holders. Fourth interim report

AU - Irvine, Annie Louise

AU - Davidson, Jacqueline

AU - Glendinning, Caroline

AU - Jones, Karen

AU - Forder, Julien

AU - Caiels, J

AU - Welch, E

AU - Windle, K

AU - Dolan, P

AU - King, D

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - Personal health budgets are central to developing more personalised healthcare in England. Personal health budgets offer individuals choice over which care and services they receive and control over the money spent on their healthcare. After an initial assessment, an individual is told how much money is available and decides how to use this money to meet health and wellbeing outcomes. These plans are agreed with and signed off by the PCT. The budget can be held by a health professional, by an independent third party on behalf of the patient, by the patient as a cash direct payment (in certain approved localities), or a combination of these. Personal health budgets are being piloted in English primary care trusts (PCTs) between 2009 and 2012. This evaluation report looks at the early experiences of a small subsample of budget holders and their representatives. It reports in-depth interviews with 58 people from 17 PCTs, around three months after the offer of a personal health budget, about their experiences of personal health budgets so far.

AB - Personal health budgets are central to developing more personalised healthcare in England. Personal health budgets offer individuals choice over which care and services they receive and control over the money spent on their healthcare. After an initial assessment, an individual is told how much money is available and decides how to use this money to meet health and wellbeing outcomes. These plans are agreed with and signed off by the PCT. The budget can be held by a health professional, by an independent third party on behalf of the patient, by the patient as a cash direct payment (in certain approved localities), or a combination of these. Personal health budgets are being piloted in English primary care trusts (PCTs) between 2009 and 2012. This evaluation report looks at the early experiences of a small subsample of budget holders and their representatives. It reports in-depth interviews with 58 people from 17 PCTs, around three months after the offer of a personal health budget, about their experiences of personal health budgets so far.

KW - personal health budgets

KW - personalisation

KW - healthcare

KW - health services

KW - service users

KW - primary care trust

KW - PCT

KW - choice and control

M3 - Commissioned report

BT - Personal health budgets

PB - Department of Health

CY - London

ER -