10 June 2019

Oversight arrangements for managing a personal health budget

Table talk: commissioners beware, direct payments for funding care packages do have limitations
Mills & Reeve 10 June 2019
  • A new decision from the Court of Protection raises important issues in relation to getting the financial and “care management oversight” right.
  • The court found that a brokerage arrangement for delivering an extensive package of care was in the best interests of a young man (P) who lacked capacity to make decisions about where he should live, with whom he should live and the package of care and clinical treatment he required.