Shaping personal health budgets: a view from the top

Authors:
NHS CONFEDERATION. Mental Health Network, NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT UNIT
Publisher:
NHS Confederation
Publication year:
2009
Pagination:
21p.
Place of publication:
London

This report examines the views of 40 senior leaders from local health and social care organisations on personal health budgets. The interviewees represented: 15 primary care trusts (PCTs), 16 mental health providers and nine social services departments. Three areas of concern were consistently raised: cost and complexity of implementing personal health budgets; barriers due to the organisational culture of the NHS; and compromises in patients' safety and the quality assurance of services. However, the research also found support for personal health budgets as a concept and consensus that they would offer significant benefits to many people managing long-term conditions. Short case studies are included in the report.

Subject terms:
mental health care, NHS, personal budgets, primary care trusts, service users, staff, costs, health care, personal health budgets;
Content type:
research
Location(s):
England
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ISBN print:
978 1 85947 173 9

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