Personal Health Budgets

Person-centred care and care planning is at the heart of making personal health budgets (PHBs) work well. If you apply and are granted a personal health budget we will work with you to discuss and plan your care.

We will contact you to arrange a home visit by your allocated Nurse Assessor to work with you to devise a care plan that will clearly set out the health and well-being needs that your personal health budget is to address, the intended outcomes that the plan is to achieve, the amount of money in the budget and how this is going to be used to meet your individual assessed needs and agreed outcomes.

These may relate to both health and well-being outcomes. This plan has to be agreed by your local Clinical Commissioning Group before it is put into place.

What happens next? Once your care and support plan has been agreed, your Payroll, Brokerage and Support Officer will arrange to visit you to set up your managed account. We will implement any services and/or therapies agreed in your care plan and support you to recruit your own care staff (Personal Assistants). After 3 months your Nurse Assessor will conduct your first review and thereafter an annual review to assess how your needs and outcomes are being met.

We will continue to support you throughout your journey as a PHB Holder and/or employer.

From October 2014 people who are assessed as or are already eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) as defined by the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care November 2012 (revised) and families of children eligible for CC as defined by the National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care have a “right to have” a personal health budget.

For more information please refer to NHS England Guidance.