What could the NHS learn from individual budgets and direct payments?
According to a new report from Birmingham University patients should be a given a personal budget to pay for their healthcare directly. It suggests that this would empower patients to take control of their care. Patients would have freedom to purchase services within the NHS or through private providers. The authors argue it would operate in a similar way to the Direct Payment model that has been used in social care for almost ten years Working with carers Updated guidance has been produced by the BMA’s Committee on Community Care to assist doctors in all settings in their work with carers Launch of the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Specialist Library A comprehensive collection of current knowledge and evidence about patient and public involvement in healthcare is now available in the patient and public involvement (PPI) specialist library run by the King’s Fund for the National Library for Health New software for patient electronic health records GP2GP is a new software applica
