Personal budgets:delivering health and social care

integration for the individual

Jaimee Lewis – Think Local Act Personal

In this session...• Alex Mycawka on his life using a personal health

budgets• Zoe Porter, NHS England, on the work so far in

personal health budgets & early learning on integrating health and social care through personal budgets

• Trudy Reynolds, Oxfordshire Going Further Faster Personal Health Budgets site on their experiences

• Andrea Sutcliffe, SCIE, on engaging health & social care leadership around this agenda.

What does ‘integration at level of individual via Personal Budgets’ actually mean?

• Momentum building towards integrated health and social care

• Artificial divisions between health & social care negatively impact people’s experiences

• Integration focus: improving experience and quality of care for people and carers

• Personalisation focus: services & supports designed with and around the individual

• Health and social care personal budgets bring both agendas together.

It’s easy, right?!

• This work is starting to happen in local areas across England – through the Personal Health Budgets Going Further Fast sites (Zoe & Trudy will tell you more).

• Mary’s story to help explain this simply (watch it here: http://bit.ly/14D5Tqd )

• TLAP & NHS England working together, along with SCIE and NHS Confederation to work through the key challenges, identify the opportunities, engage champions across sector to help make the case, solve problems, share learning.

• But Alex, Zoe, Trudy & Andrea can tell you more...