Personal budgets and dementia
Currently in England, according to the Government, more than 15 million people have a long term condition – a health problem that can’t be cured but can be controlled by medication or other therapies....
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Sir David Nicholson, KCB, CBE, is Chief Executive of NHS England. In 2010 Nicholson jokingly described NHS reform plans, the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act (2012), as the biggest...
View ArticlePersonal budgets for dementia. What’s the harm in them, and are the right...
Personal budgets held by individual people might allow more flexibility in choice and control over health services. So what’s the harm in them? Barry Schwartz’s famous book “The paradox of choice”,...
View ArticleA personal budget approach blind to the underlying neuroscience of dementia...
One of the critical messages in recent public health awareness campaigns about dementia is that there is much more to a person living with dementia than his or her actual diagnosis. This focus on...
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