Personal health budgets evaluation (PHBE)

Principal investigator(s):: Julien Forder, Karen Jones
Team:: Karen Jones, Julien Forder, James Caiels, Elizabeth Welch Woodward
Start year:: 2009
End year:: 2016
Funder:: Department of Health
Partners:: University of York and Imperial College, London
Website:: https://www.phbe.org.uk

Personalisation is an important new policy direction for health care in England. The piloting of personal health budgets (PHBs) is being viewed as one feature of this policy. However, this new way of delivering health care represents a major cultural shift within the health care service which needs to be explored before any decision of a national roll-out can be made. In 2009, the Department of Health invited 70 PCTs to become pilot sites to explore the opportunities offered by personal health budgets which will be supported by a rigorous evaluation. A multidisciplinary research team from the University of Kent, the University of York and Imperial College London conducted the research.

Publications

Journal Articles

Journal Article

Implementing personal health budgets in England: a user-led approach to substance misuse

2016

Health and Social Care in the Community

Journal Article

Personalization in the health care system: do personal health budgets impact on outcomes and cost

2013

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 18 2 suppl 59-67

Book Sections

Book Section

Personal health budgets: implementation and outcomes

2016

Social Policy Review 28: Analysis and debate in social policy

Book Section

Evaluation of the personal health budget pilot programme

2014

Debates in Personalisation 127-134

Reports

Report

Personal Health Budgets: Process and context following the national pilot programme

2017

Report

Implementing personal health budgets within substance misuse services

2013

Report

The cost of implementing personal health budgets

2011

Report

Experiences of Implementing Personal Health Budgets: Second Interim Report

2010

Report

Early experiences of implementing personal health budgets

2010

Project Outlines

Project Outline

Evaluation of the Personal Health Budgets Pilot (PSSRU Project Outline 91)

2010

Conference Presentations

Conference presentation output

Personalisation and Prevention in England

2011

Symposium at Social Policy Association

Manuscripts

Manuscript

Implementing personal health budgets: Opportunities and challenges for the NHS

2016