Personal Budgets

In Health and Social care there is a move towards people having a personal budget to buy their own services in different ways.

There are 7 steps to using a personal budget to be in -control of your support.  Two of these steps are support planning - where you decide how you want to spend your money, and outcome focused reviews.

HSA leads on support planning using person centred thinking and outcome focused reviews.

 

Papers and Articles

Key elements of personalised care planning in long term conditions and personal health budget by Jo Harvey.

This work was facilitated by Jo Harvey of Helen Sanderson Associates, and began with a small workshop that included representatives from the Department of Health's personal health budgets delivery team and long term conditions team, the Year of Care National team, the Co-creating Health Initiative, Expert Patients Programme, Norfolk Coalition Of Disabled People and a personal budget user with extensive experience in social care support planning.
This is not a DH policy document or a prescriptive guide to personalised care planning, but it is intended to offer a summary of learning from long term conditions, with the aim to provide a useful framework to pilot sites when approaching the planning of personal health budgets.

To read this paper see the downloads box on the left.

 

Deciding what a personal health budget can be spent on: developing local processes by Jo Harvey.
This discussion paper outlines a piece of work undertaken by Jo Harvey of Helen Sanderson Associates on behalf of the Department of Health's personal health budgets pilot programme. The aim of this work is to help sites plan and structure local discussions on what personal health budgets can be spent on and the underpinning processes. The work was undertaken in December of 2009 and early 2010.

This paper describes:
• the background to the work;
• what the work involved;
• the structuring of the workshop;
• how each session in the workshop was run, and the techniques used to facilitate discussions.
Each section contains some early learning from three facilitated workshops.

To read this paper see the downloads box on the left.

Podcasts

Paul uses a direct payment to pay for his personal assistant.
Following the start of his person centred plan Paul choose his personal assistant who now helps him connect with activities that are important to him.

 

Joseph's personal budget.
Caroline talks about how a personal budget has helped Joseph.

 

Andrew talks about his individual service fund.
Andrew talks about how one service has helped him live an independent life.

Examples and Stories

Ben's Support Plan for his Individual Budget.

Examples of Best Practice - Individual Support Agreement.