Lamb backs personal health budgets for mental health services
Author: Jamie Hailstone, the MJ |
Care minister Norman Lamb has said he hopes personal health budgets for people who use mental health services to be rolled out across the country.
Mr Lamb was responding to the news that NHS England is to use seven new sites around the country to roll out personal health budgets, following a successful pilot scheme.
The seven sites will look at encouraging people who use mental health services to start using the budgets on a large scale.
‘I’m pleased to see the work that NHS England is doing with clinical commissioning groups on the use of personal health budgets within mental health services,’ said Mr Lamb.
‘I hope that the experience drawn from this work will enable the roll out of their use in mental health services across the country.’