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Understanding personal health budgets

Further to the commitment made in High Quality Care for All to pilot personal health budgets, and the publication in January 2009 of Personal Health Budgets: First Steps, which set out the principles of personal health budgets and invited expressions of interest in the pilot programme, we have now published Understanding Personal Budgets. This leaflet is designed primarily so that organisations involved in developing personal health budgets, whether in a statutory or support role, will have consistent, accessible information to give to people who might be interested in having a personal health budget. It introduces the idea of a personal health budget and provides details of where to obtain further information.

• Download Understanding personal health budgets (PDF, 293K)
• Download Personal health budgets: new ideas about getting the health care you need - easy read version (PDF, 727K)