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Personal Health Budgets<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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What is a personal health budget?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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“A personal health budget is an amount of money to support a person\u2019s identified health and well-being needs, which is planned and agreed between the person, their representative, or, in the case of children, their families or carers and the local NHS team. It is not new money, but money that would normally have been spent by the NHS on a person\u2019s care being spent in a more flexible way to meet their identified needs. The use of personal health budgets is one way of providing more personalised care and means tailoring services and support for people to enable them to have choice, control and flexibility over their care.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Personal health budgets are one way that people with long term health conditions and disabilities are able to have more choice and control in their own lives. It is part of a movement for change, driven by people themselves, to be able to have a more \u201cordinary\u201d life and the same life options as people without complex health needs. What\u2019s exciting about personal health budgets is the coming together of the disability rights movement with NHS policy on personalised care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often when people have long term health conditions and disabilities, the way the health and care system has traditionally planned and delivered their care has limited people\u2019s choice and control. Personal health budgets redress this by moving power and decision making closer to people. They do this by letting people know roughly how much money is available for their care and support and allowing flexible spend to meet people\u2019s agreed health and well-being outcomes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Who can have a personal health budget?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Currently there are three groups of people who have a legal “right to have” a personal health budget. These groups are people who are eligible for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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