Delivering Personal Health Budgets: A Guide to Policy and Practice
Vidhya Alakeson
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Description for Delivering Personal Health Budgets: A Guide to Policy and Practice
Hardback. This book contains everything there is to know about the purpose and history of personal health budgets, the evidence for their effectiveness and the challenges they pose to traditional healthcare systems. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; KJMV1; MBPM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
Personal health budgets are an important new tool to improve the lives of people living with long-term conditions and disabilities by giving them greater choice and control over their healthcare.This is the first step-by-step guide to their implementation. Using current evidence and best practice identified by pilot sites, Delivering personal health budgets contains everything there is to know about the purpose and history of personal health budgets, the evidence for their effectiveness and the challenges they pose to traditional healthcare systems. It describes the essential infrastructure needed for personal health budgets and includes implementation checklists.The book focuses on how ... Read more
Personal health budgets are an important new tool to improve the lives of people living with long-term conditions and disabilities by giving them greater choice and control over their healthcare.This is the first step-by-step guide to their implementation. Using current evidence and best practice identified by pilot sites, Delivering personal health budgets contains everything there is to know about the purpose and history of personal health budgets, the evidence for their effectiveness and the challenges they pose to traditional healthcare systems. It describes the essential infrastructure needed for personal health budgets and includes implementation checklists.The book focuses on how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bristol University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447308539
SKU
V9781447308539
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Vidhya Alakeson
Vidhya Alakeson, Deputy Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, is a leading consultant in the personalisation of health and social care. She is an internationally recognised expert on personal health budgets and has been closely involved in the development and implementation of personalisation in the NHS England and in the American Medicaid programme.
Reviews for Delivering Personal Health Budgets: A Guide to Policy and Practice
"Vidhya Alakeson has been the leading champion of personal health budgets in the UK. Her vision, intelligence and thoughtfulness has been essential to this important policy innovation." Dr Simon Duffy, The Centre for Welfare Reform “The success of personal health budgets depends on them being implemented well; this book is a valuable resource for those introducing them and for anyone ... Read more