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Policy Framework Agreement • January 5th, 2017

What are the intended outcomes of this work? This Policy Framework agreement for Personal Health Budgets (PHB) supports the implementation of PHBs across CWHHE. 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’.In November 2012, following the evaluation of the Personal Health Budgets national pilot programme the Government announced that anyone (adults and children) eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) would have the ‘right to ask’ for a PHB by April 2014 and the ‘right to have’ one from October 2014. The NHS mandate in 2014 also re-confirmed this commitment and extended this to anyone with a long term condition who can benefit from a personal health budget, with a ‘right to ask’ for one by April 2015.PHBs are one of the tangible ways the NHS can become significantly better at involving people and empowering them to make decisions about their own care and t