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What are Personal Health Budgets, how do they work and how will they affect you?

Personal Health Budgets or PHBs are the next major step towards personalising healthcare. They’ve been designed to allow people more choice and control over the money spent on meeting their healthcare and wellbeing needs.

With the introduction of Personal Health Budgets in 2014 billions of pounds of NHS funding will be devolved to patients to purchase their own health services. This has the potential to revolutionise the provision, funding and delivery of health and social care in England. Whether you are a patient, health care professional or service provider PHBs could have a major impact on what you do and how you do it.

This collection looks at the roll out of PHBs from the perspective of the people who commission care services, those who provide it and, most importantly, those on the receiving end – the patients.

Your Health in Your Hands - PHBs - for iPod/iPhone The Open University

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What are Personal Health Budgets, how do they work and how will they affect you?

Personal Health Budgets or PHBs are the next major step towards personalising healthcare. They’ve been designed to allow people more choice and control over the money spent on meeting their healthcare and wellbeing needs.

With the introduction of Personal Health Budgets in 2014 billions of pounds of NHS funding will be devolved to patients to purchase their own health services. This has the potential to revolutionise the provision, funding and delivery of health and social care in England. Whether you are a patient, health care professional or service provider PHBs could have a major impact on what you do and how you do it.

This collection looks at the roll out of PHBs from the perspective of the people who commission care services, those who provide it and, most importantly, those on the receiving end – the patients.

    The impact of Personal Health Budgets

    The impact of Personal Health Budgets

    In this discussion three people involved in implementing Personal Health Budgets, or PHBs, explain what they’re going to mean for healthcare in England. PHBs are the next major step towards personalising healthcare. They’ve been designed to allow people more choice and control over the money spent on meeting their healthcare and wellbeing needs. The NHS hopes to, ultimately, offer a PHB to anyone who could benefit.

    • 25 min
    Transcript -- The impact of Personal Health Budgets

    Transcript -- The impact of Personal Health Budgets

    In this discussion three people involved in implementing Personal Health Budgets, or PHBs, explain what they’re going to mean for healthcare in England. PHBs are the next major step towards personalising healthcare. They’ve been designed to allow people more choice and control over the money spent on meeting their healthcare and wellbeing needs. The NHS hopes to, ultimately, offer a PHB to anyone who could benefit.

    How Personal Health Budgets work

    How Personal Health Budgets work

    In this discussion practitioners tell us how Personal Health Budgets, or PHBs, will be rolled out. The movement towards personalisation started in the 1970s. Since 2009 a variety of trials have taken place across England, mainly for people living with long term conditions. From 2014 more and more patients will be able to ask to take control of their own health care.

    • 25 min
    Transcript -- How Personal Health Budgets work

    Transcript -- How Personal Health Budgets work

    In this discussion practitioners tell us how Personal Health Budgets, or PHBs, will be rolled out. The movement towards personalisation started in the 1970s. Since 2009 a variety of trials have taken place across England, mainly for people living with long term conditions. From 2014 more and more patients will be able to ask to take control of their own health care.

    Case study 4: Motor Neurone Disease

    Case study 4: Motor Neurone Disease

    In this case study we hear from Martin Harrison who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2004. He lives in Thornaby-on-Tees in North Yorkshire with his wife and two daughters.

    • 6 min
    Transcript -- Case study 4: Motor Neurone Disease

    Transcript -- Case study 4: Motor Neurone Disease

    In this case study we hear from Martin Harrison who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2004. He lives in Thornaby-on-Tees in North Yorkshire with his wife and two daughters.

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