Delivering personal health budgets: A Guide to Policy and Practice - Softcover

Alakeson, Vidhya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447308522 ISBN 13: 9781447308522

Publisher: Policy Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 identified by pilot sites, Delivering personal health budgets contains everything there is to know about the purpose and history of personal health budgets, the evidence for their effectiveness and the challenges they pose to traditional healthcare systems. It describes the essential infrastructure needed for personal health budgets and includes implementation checklists. The book focuses on how personal health budgets can be implemented to achieve the best possible outcomes for individuals, while real life stories from personal health budget holders bring their potential vividly to life. Delivering personal health budgets is essential reading for commissioners, healthcare providers, clinicians and policy makers who are looking for an informative and authoritative guide.

About this title

About the Author

Vidhya Alakeson, Deputy Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, is a leading consultant in the personalisation of health and social care. She is an internationally recognised expert on personal health budgets and has been closely involved in the development and implementation of personalisation in the English NHS and in the American Medicaid programme.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447308522
• ISBN 13: 9781447308522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176