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Welcome to the personal health budgets Learning Network. If you're interested in personal budgets in the NHS you can find out more about the Department of Health's pilot programme on this website, along with news, resources and information about learning so far. The Network is also home to a learning community for professionals directly involved in the pilot programme, and is run in partnership with In Control.
The Personal Health Budgets Learning Network is being run in partnership with In Control. Many NHS organisations are members of In Control and are working on personalisation in health with them.
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- Direct payments for health care: information for pilot sites
16/07/2010 - First interim personal health budgets evaluation report by PHBE
16/07/2010 - Equality Impact Assessment
12/07/2010 - Discussion paper: Key elements of personalised care planning in long term conditions and personal health budgets
12/07/2010 - Discussion paper: Deciding what a personal health budget can be spent on: developing local processes
12/07/2010
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Latest Personal health budgets learning network News
- First personal health budgets interim evaluation report published
The first independent interim evaluation report on the personal health budgets pilot programme has been published by PHBE. - Direct payments for health care: information for pilot sites published
Information on the regulations governing direct payments in health has been published. The document gives clear advice to help sites in the DH personal health budgets pilot programme meet the regulatory requirements. Nine sites have now been awarded powers to offer direct payments. - £4 million boost to give patients control of their health care
Personal health budgets are being given a £4 million boost, announces Minister for Care Services Paul Burstow. - NHS white paper published
The NHS White Paper published on 12 July 2010, Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS, sets out the Government's long-term vision for the future of the NHS. Read what the paper sets out about personal health budgets. - Health Secretary speech to NHS Confederation
In a speech at the NHS Confederation annual conference in Liverpool on 24 June 2010, the Secretary of State for Health set out how a vision for patient-centred care will propel the NHS, the professionals and the frontline through the unique and challenging times ahead.