New Health Bill moves towards individual commissioning budgets

The Health Bill 2009  introduced into Parliament on 15 January boosts the personalisation and choice agendas by enabling direct payments for healthcare to people in England.  There are already 60,000 people receiving direct payments for social care.  This is a big step towards the objective of individualised... 
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The 2009 future for consultation – better organised for action and value

I am sure I am not the only person working in the field of public involvement who has been wondering what the impact of our current financial crisis will be on the work which organisations have been doing to engage with public and with public service users.  So it was interesting to attend a round table... 
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On being chosen by Mr Bradshaw to have my say – more than once

There it was on the mat. Young Mr Ben Bradshaw’s letter saying I had been chosen to give my views on local NHS services as part of the GP Patient Survey. Actually it should have said my views on “primary care services”, since it is only about GP practices not the NHS in general, but let... 
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