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Personal health budgets: first steps

Lord Darzi announced in High Quality Care for All  that the Department will launch a pilot of personal health budgets in 2009, as a way of giving people greater control over the services they use and who provides them. Personal Health Budgets: First Steps sets out the principles of personal health budgets, reports on early lessons and invites expressions of interest in the pilot programme.

• Covering letter from David Nicholson
• Download Personal health budgets: first steps (PDF, 889K)
• Download Pilot programme application form (DOT, 72K)
• Personal Health Budgets proposed legislation in the Health Bill
• Personal Health Budgets Impact Assessment