Government plans to exceed the rights of a Personal Health Budget
The health secretary on the 8th of March had set out targets for a “radical acceleration” of personal health budgets which are part of a newly formed agenda. This includes a significantly massive expansion on the current target which sits at 200,00 service users to have a personal health budge t by the year 2024 additionally up to 4 million people accessing “personalized care” by March 2024 There was a speech stating that the NHS is already becoming a more personalized service with personalized budgets , personalized technology, personalized medicine, and treatment. That they want to see the radical acceleration of that process. “The current target Is set for 200,00 people to have a Personal Health Budget by 2024, but they want to see a significant expansion in the coming years. We will start by exploring the extension of legal rights to enable significantly more people to benefit” The statement also stated that the NHS has exceeded its target of “2.5 million” people having benefit