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Thousands of patients across England will from 1 April be expected to individually manage the funds allocated for their healthcare, which have been merged into their social care ‘entitlements’, the NHS announced this week..
In Barnsley, Cheshire, Tower Hamlets, Hampshire, Portsmouth, Stockton and the South West of England, 10,000 patients with complex needs will be a single ‘pot’ of money from which they will be expected to purchase both their health and their social care needs.
The details vary by area but the main groups affected are older people with multiple health needs, children with disabilities, and people with diabetes, dementia, learning disabilities, or serious mental health problems.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournh...'personal-health-budgets'-imposed-on-10000-ch
In Barnsley, Cheshire, Tower Hamlets, Hampshire, Portsmouth, Stockton and the South West of England, 10,000 patients with complex needs will be a single ‘pot’ of money from which they will be expected to purchase both their health and their social care needs.
The details vary by area but the main groups affected are older people with multiple health needs, children with disabilities, and people with diabetes, dementia, learning disabilities, or serious mental health problems.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournh...'personal-health-budgets'-imposed-on-10000-ch