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‘A Healthier Dorset’
Personal Health Budgets NHS Dorset
Roger Webb
Project Manager
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What is a Personal Health Budget
• Personal Health Budget is health equivalent of a personal budget
• Supported assessments and self directed support allow you to control parts of your healthcare by providing you with a personal health budget
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NHS Dorset as a Pilot site• NHS Dorset is one of 20 Primary Care
Trusts in England to pilot Personal Health Budgets
• Pilot will last for 3 years
• Kent University leading evaluation nationally
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Who will be offered a budget in the pilot
• 60 patients over 3 years• 25 Adults eligible for Continuing Healthcare • 20 People with Long term conditions especially
Neurological conditions• 10 Patients with Long Term Conditions in
Respiratory- COPD• 5 End of Life• Only those who wish to take a budget
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What can it be used for?
• Agreed health plan
• Therapies
• Personal Care
• Lifestyle advice
• Self management courses
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What it can not be used for
• Emergency care
• General Practitioner
• Gambling
• Alcohol or tobacco
• Debt repayment
• Any unlawful activities
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Goals of the Pilot
• Person centred care
• Integration with social care
• Reduction of inequalities
• Informed choice
• Control of health care /lifestyle
• Better use of resources
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How will we support people
• Joint work with Dorset County Council
• Care Co-ordinator
• Care plan agreed
• Resources allocated
• Information and support
• 3rd sector support – Enham/Pro-Disability
• Notional/3rd party or direct payments
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New way of thinking for NHS
• Cultural change for the NHS patients and partners
• Test out hypothesis-eg emergency admissions
• Influence national policy – Financial Sustainability, Market Development, Budget setting, Workforce Development, Cultural Change, Integration with LA
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Questions
• Any Questions please??
