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Personal health budget

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Definition

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Personal health budget

Focus Adult Social Work

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NE Lincolnshire Council: Social Care Handbook

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A personal health budget is an amount of money to support a person's identified health and wellbeing needs, planned and agreed between the person and their local NHS team.
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Plain English definition

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Personal health budget

Think Local Act Personal

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Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) Jargon Buster

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An amount of money to pay for your specific health needs, given to you - or managed for you - by the NHS. It is based on your own individual care plan, which sets out your health goals and how your budget will help you reach them. You can spend it on things like therapies, personal care and equipment. You cannot use it to pay for emergency care or care you usually get from a family doctor. Using a personal health budget is a choice: you do not have to have one unless you want to. See also personal budget.
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