All Personal health budgets articles – Page 6
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News
Housing crisis
Simon Stevens' suggestion of individual budgets for the whole of a patient's healthcare needs in one year rather than a disease-specific approach is attractive and makes a lot of sense. However, individually tailored and purchased healthcare is not much use if the individual has housing problems or is finding maintaining ...
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Comment
Michael White on social care's big year
This is a big year for social care, possibly the biggest for a generation, says minister Ivan Lewis whenever he gets the chance. 'We've got to get it right.'
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Comment
Preventive care rhetoric could become reality
Gordon Brown's keynote health speech was not just a crucial moment in the bid to relaunch his premiership (for more details, click here). As the NHS heads towards its 60th anniversary, his government's ability to deliver these reforms will have a profound impact on the service's long-term future.
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Comment
Michael White on super-sizing the NHS
Huge comprehensive schools which became dysfunctional over time? Huge new 'Titan' prisons which will almost certainly be hard to manage? Ditto hospitals?