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- Personal health budgets and NHS Continuing Healthcare discussion paper
Key resource - Added on 27/01/2012
This document is a discussion paper which explores personal health budgets for people receiving NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC). It will be of interest to healthcare professionals who have a role in NHS CHC or are considering the future implementation of personal health budgets, and is the first of a number of informative documents on the subject. - Personal budgets: Taking Stock, Moving Forward
Key resource - Added on 11/11/2011
Personal Budgets: Taking Stock, Moving Forward provides an overview of the latest evidence in how the sector is progressing with the delivery of personal budgets. There has been some important progress made, with encouraging evidence showing improved outcomes for people. - Personal health budget pilot - 4th interim evaluation report
Key resource - Added on 20/10/2011
"Early experiences of budget holders" interviews 58 budget holders in the pilot about their experiences of personal health budgets after three months. The report is positive overall, with some people already experiencing improved health outcomes. - The cost of implementing personal health budgets: 3rd interim report by PHBE
Key resource - Added on 15/07/2011
The third independent interim evaluation report on the personal health budgets pilot programme has been published by PHBE, the personal health budgets evaluation team. The report, "The cost of implementing personal health budgets", focuses on the set-up costs involved for the 20 in-depth evaluated pilot sites to implement personal health budgets. - Personal health budgets for mental health - learning set year 1: lessons from implementation
Key resource - Added on 10/06/2011
Since April 2010, In Control and Together have been running a learning set with personal health budgets pilot sites focusing on mental health (commissioned by The Department of Health and the National Mental Health Development Unit, with the NHS Confederation). Primary care trust leads in each participating pilot site have been encouraged to bring local partners to the learning set, including providers, clinical professionals, local authority representatives and individuals with lived experience. - Paths to personalisation guide
Key resource - Added on 27/04/2011
Personal health budgets are one way to personalise health services. This guide has been produced to help all those involved understand how things will need to be done differently to make personalisation a reality for people with mental health needs. - Personal health budgets and the role of nursing
Key resource - Added on 11/03/2011
This article "Personal health budgets and the role of nursing" describes personal health budgets and presents some early findings from pilots in England and the United States. The article is authored by Vidhya Alekeson and David Coyle and published in Nursing Standard. - Recovery is for all
Key resource - Added on 09/02/2011
Two mental health trusts, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, have collaborated to produce this position statement by consultant psychiatrists, "Recovery is for all: Hope, Agency and Opportunity in Psychiatry". A group of consultants was given the task of developing a coherent view of recovery and of summarising the key factors that support the relevance of recovery principles for the practice of clinicians and the future development of mental health services. - Second interim evaluation report by PHBE
Key resource - Added on 23/11/2010
The second interim independent evaluation report on the personal health budgets programme, "Experiences of implementing personal health budgets", has been published by the personal health budgets evaluation (PHBE) team on 23 November 2010. It focuses on the views of operational staff, health professionals, commissioning managers and third party budget holders within the 20 in-depth pilot sites. - Skills for Care individual employer offer
Key resource - Added on 19/11/2010
Skills for Care is committed to helping the growing number of individuals who employ their own care and support staff. To support these people Skills for Care has developed an 'offer', which pulls together relevant products and resources that will help them understand their responsibilities as an employer as well as providing excellent information on developing their workforce.
