Delivering Personal Health Budgets : : A Guide to Policy and Practice / / Vidhya Alakeson.

Personal health budgets are an important new tool to improve the lives of people living with long-term conditions and disabilities by giving them greater choice and control over their healthcare.This is the first step-by-step guide to their implementation. Using current evidence and best practice id...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (152 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Introducing personal health budgets
  • Personalisation across public services
  • What is a personal health budget? The basics explained
  • The development of personalisation: from direct payments to personal health budgets
  • Managing long-term conditions: the case for personal health budgets
  • How well do personal health budgets work?
  • Implementing personal health budgets
  • The personal health budget process
  • How to set a personal health budget
  • Getting the most out of care planning
  • Managing and monitoring the money
  • Personal health budgets and organisational change in the NHS
  • Navigating the new landscape: personal health budgets and NHS reform
  • Doctor does not know best: a changing role for clinical professionals
  • Growing the market: bringing new providers into the NHS
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index