06 Dec 2012
Vidhya Alakeson, deputy chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, research and policy organisation working to improve outcomes for people on low incomes
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Thousands of patients in England will soon have access to their own NHS personal health budgets giving them more control over the type of treatment they receive. The scheme is designed to help patients who have complex conditions...
Claudia Wood, deputy director of Demos, a thinktank, which challenges the traditional, 'ivory tower' model of policymaking by giving a voice to people and communitiesNO
Claudia Wood believes the problem with personal health budgets is that by their very definition of ‘personal’, they are most suited “to the purchase of services on an individual basis”.
“Personal Health Budgets will see an........