Pulse 24 September 2013
- Personal health budgets come into force in the health service from April 2014.
- They are designed to enable people with long-term conditions and disabilities to have greater choice, flexibility and control over the healthcare and support they receive.
- People who are already receiving NHS Continuing Care will have a right to ask for a personal health budget from April 2014 and CCGs will be able to offer personal health budgets to others with the aim of making them available to anyone with a long-term condition who could beneļ¬t by 2015.
