11 March 2014

Personal health budgets for those with learning disabilities

Personal Health Budgets: including people with learning disabilities
Think Local Act Personal, 11 March 2014
  • From April 2014 CCGs will need to be able to offer personal health budgets, initially to people who are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare  funding and others with long term conditions
  • This report recommends that personal health budgets could and should be offered routinely to:
    • Young disabled people who are moving towards adult life 
    • People being moved from unsuitable placements as part of the Winterbourne View action plan 
    • Other people with learning disabilities or autism who have high support needs and are not well served by conventional service approaches