NHS Portsmouth - South Central SHA

Key focus/scope

The pilot is a partnership between NHS Portsmouth, Portsmouth City Council, Portsmouth Disability Forum and Rowans Hospice. It will focus on people with continuing health care needs, people receiving end of life care on the gold standards framework and people using mental health services.

Overview of pilot and its purpose

The pilot aims to find ways to increase the choice and control people in Portsmouth can exercise over the way their healthcare is planned and delivered. It will also explore the full range of options available for delivering health care as a personal budget, including delivery alongside self-directed support for social care.

The pilot seeks to identify systems and processes across organisations that will need to be in place to support operation of a personal health budget. This includes identifying the financial, information, risk governance, market development, workforce development and communication issues and proposing ways of resolving them.

Testing the system and processes with selected people from each area of health care need will enable the development of a prototype system for delivering a personal health budget. As service development work gets underway with prototype systems, learning from offering personal health budgets will feed into a plan to deliver personal health budgets across a whole range of areas.

The pilot will focus on an initial cohort of 15-30 people.

Objectives of pilot

The pilot aims to:

• increase choice and control for people in Portsmouth over how their health care is planned
• pilot personal health budgets with up to 10 people from each group during 2010/11
• explore the full range of options available for delivering health care as a personal budget including delivery alongside self-directed support for social care

This information has been provided by NHS Portsmouth.