This new briefing paper from the NHS Confederation and the Centre for Mental Health looks at the impact that personalisation and recovery are having on mental health services in England.
The first part of this paper describes personalisation, personal budgets and personal health budgets.
The second sets out their shared philosophy and discusses what the two approaches mean for changing the current service system.
The third part focuses on personal health budgets as tools for recovery and identifies the eight core features that need to be put in place if recovery-oriented services are to maximise the potential of personal health budgets:
- A simple, fair resource allocation system
- Effective recovery planning (combined with effective support when required)
- New approaches to opportunity and safety
- A more diverse workforce
- Monitoring on the basis of outcomes not spending
- A new evidence base
- A more diverse market
- Sustainable funding
Sean Duggan, Chief Executive at Centre for Mental Health said:
Recovery-oriented practice helps people to set their own goals and priorities. And personalisation gives people a greater say on how their health and social care needs are met. Combining the two in the right way enables people to make important decisions about their own lives.
Links
Recovery, Personalisation and Personal Budgets (PDF). Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change briefing, 2012.
Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change (ImROC) Project website.
