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NHS England has awarded 191 CCGs across England £20,000 each to help them get personal health budgets up and running, Pulse has learnt.
The total £3.8 million injection into the programme aims to help areas where personal health budgets have not yet been trialled set up the ‘systems and processes’ needed to meet the projected national roll-out targets, NHS England said.
But GP commissioning leads warned the money was a ‘tiny’ amount, given the management costs involved in setting up and running the budgets.
Personal health budgets form a key plank of the Government’s ‘personalisation’ agenda for health care, and involve giving patients an agreed pot of money for them to choose which services they want to buy to suit their needs.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20006860.article#.U42O6vldWAg
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The total £3.8 million injection into the programme aims to help areas where personal health budgets have not yet been trialled set up the ‘systems and processes’ needed to meet the projected national roll-out targets, NHS England said.
But GP commissioning leads warned the money was a ‘tiny’ amount, given the management costs involved in setting up and running the budgets.
Personal health budgets form a key plank of the Government’s ‘personalisation’ agenda for health care, and involve giving patients an agreed pot of money for them to choose which services they want to buy to suit their needs.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20006860.article#.U42O6vldWAg
(free registration)