New report on the challenges of Personal Health Budgets

From 2014, personal health budgets will be offered to people in receipt of continuing care. The Nuffield Trust have published a report 'Public Health Budgets: challenges for commissioners and policy-makers', the report looks at what they are, how they will work in practice, and the issues they raise.

The report states that the roll-out of personal health budgets will be a challenge for commissioners and policy-makers as they determine how personal health budgets will fit within the mainstream NHS landscape. The report outlines the issues that face both policy makers and commissioners.