NHS England rolls out new personal health budget sitesSeven new demonstrator sites have been set up to look at rolling out personal health budgets to people who use mental health services. Read more »
Personal health budgets: Challenges for commissioners and policy-makersThis research summary describes what personal health budgets are and how they are supposed to work in practice. It explores the evidence from the national evaluation and some of the challenges that commissioners and policy-makers face in implementing personal health budgets. Read more »
Mary’s storyIn this video we learn about how Mary has used her personal health budget for psychotherapy sessions which have improved her mental health and wellbeing, enabling her to establish a much better relationship with her family. Read more »
Second National Personal Budget SurveyThis report highlights the findings of the Second National Personal Budget Survey into the impact of personal budgets in most people’s lives. Read more »
Personal health budgets guide: How to get good resultsThis guide is a summary of what has been learned so far about how to make personal health budgets work well. It brings together findings from the evaluation and good practice advice developed together with the pilot sites. Read more »
Co-production – changing the relationship between people and practitionersThis good practice guide describes the ideas behind co-production and offers suggestions for how they can be used to make sure personal health budgets work well for people locally. Read more »
Evaluation of the personal health budget pilot programmeThis report presents the findings of an evaluation commissioned by the Department of Health to identify whether personal health budgets ensured better health and care outcomes when compared to conventional service delivery and, if so, the best way for them to be implemented. Read more »
Integrating personal budgets – early learningThis early learning guide focuses on the customer journey for integrated personal budgets. It draws out the central messages from the pilot programme and describes the six stages of the journey, with pointers to support successful local delivery. Read more »
Integrating personal budgets – myths and misconceptionsThis guide is intended for local use by those delivering personal health budgets and personal budgets in social care. It offers an overview of current learning about integrating personal budgets to support local policy and practice development. Read more »
Personalisation and mental healthThe video produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence introduces the work of support, time and recovery (STR) workers and shows how by giving support and time to service users they can promote recovery. Read more »
Personal health budgets guide: Kent market development case studyThis case study shows how commissioners are working with mental health service providers to help them change what they offer and to make the market more flexible and responsive to what people want through the use of personal health budgets. Read more »
Personal health budgets guide: Merseyside market development case studyThis case study shows how commissioners are working with mental health service providers to help them change what they offer and to make the market more flexible and responsive to what people want through the use of personal health budgets. Read more »
Lessons for rolling out personal health budgetsIn this video, Richard Jones, Executive Director for Adult and Community Services, Lancashire County Council, considers the lessons the NHS can learn from social care as it rolls out personal health budgets. Read more »
Personal budgets for older people – making it happenThis guide focuses on how councils can make personal budgets work well for older people and their families. It looks at how to ensure they are accessible, simple to use, flexible and help to achieve the things that matter most to the people using them. Read more »
Contracting for personalised outcomes: learning from emerging practiceContracting for personalised outcomes draws on learning from six local authorities who have begun to reshape their contracts, processes, range of budget holding options and relationships with the provider market to ensure that personalised services are available for everyone with care and support needs. Read more »