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Personal health budgets to be rolled out
People receiving continuing healthcare support from the NHS will have the right to ask for a personal health budget by April 2014, the health secretary Andrew Lansley has announced.
It will give the tens of thousands of people who receive NHS continuing healthcare – those assessed to have complex health and care needs – more choice and control over their care.
A personal health budget is an amount of money that is allocated to patients so that they can use it to meet their health and wellbeing needs in a way that best suits them.
