Resources

This first guide provides some key information about personal health budgets. It explains what they are, who can have one and how you might start the process of applying for one.

This second guide is about the critical process of care and support planning. It explains what a care and support plan is, what you need to know to be able to write your plan, and the essential elements that should be included.

This third guide explores the different ways that personal health budgets can be held, and the options for managing the money and the responsibilities.

This fourth guide provides some ideas and tips for getting and managing a personal health budget, and for working with the health professionals who are supporting you.

This first pack focuses on what the NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment is, including: what kind of needs may be eligible, how these needs are assessed and what happens if you are not eligible, or if you become ineligible at a later stage.

This second pack focuses on the NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment itself, including: what you should be able to expect of a good assessment, what information you should gather and how you can best prepare for the assessment.

This guide aims to share learning around good quality advice, advocacy and brokerage functions and how they can support a shift in power and decision making, within a clear partnership.

This guide is about what works for families who use a third party organisation to manage their personal health budgets, and is written by people with direct experience of personal health budgets.

This good practice guide outlines learning and approaches in relation to the delegation of tasks to personal assistants for personal health budget holders.