Extend personal care budget trials and consult experts - NHS Confederation

The body found that mental health service users are skeptical and confused about the potential of personal budgets to improve their care while only a minority of potential users said they would take up the budgets. Although it supported the introduction and increased availability of personal budgets, the NHS Confederation's Mental Health Network believes there are important barriers that will need to be addressed before they can be implemented successfully. The budgets allow people with ongoing mental health, physical health and social care needs to make their own arrangements directl...