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Published in: ourNHSPublic health concerns mount as 'personal health budgets' imposed on 10,000 chronically ill patientsPatients across the country are to have their health funding rolled into their social care funding and be expected...
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Published in: ourNHSTime to get even with StevensNew NHS boss Simon Stevens has revealed his true privatising colours with this week's announcement on personal...
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Published in: ourNHS"Handing patients NHS cash" is just rebranding cutsYesterday's announcement that millions of patients would be given individual pots of NHS funding is just a rebranded...
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Published in: ourNHSPersonal Health Budgets lead to individualism and isolation
A Thatcherite 'voucher' system is being imposed on England's NHS is the worst way to deliver 'personalisation'.
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Published in: ourNHSShop til you drop?
Is 'person-centred care' being muddled with individual consumerism - and why so little debate between the parties on...
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Published in: ourNHSSocial care: from personal budgets to a person-centred policy and practice
Personal budgets have serious implications for the ethos of the NHS which must be considered if health and social...
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Published in: ourNHSPersonal care budgets could further fragment the NHS
Aside from whether patients welcome the cash payments there are wider issues that need addressing, namely whether...
