About the Personal Health Budgets programme
Personal health budgets are one way to give disabled people and people with long term conditions more choice and control over how the money is spent on meeting their health and wellbeing needs.
The modules in this programme cover a variety of topics to support the delivery of personal health budgets at a local level.
More information
Since 2014, adults in receipt of NHS Continuing Healthcare funding and children and young people in receipt of NHS Continuing Care funding have had a right to have their care delivered through a personal health budget. There are now new legal rights to personal health budgets in place in England. These new rights apply to two specific groups of people:
People who are eligible for after-care services under section 117 of the Mental Health Act, which is the provision or arrangement of help and support for people who have been detained in hospital under sections 3, 37, 45A, 47 or 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983, when they leave hospital. For this group, a personal health budget may be considered whenever planning is taking place for section 117 mental health after-care needs during an admission to hospital, or at any assessment held to review the person’s section 117 after-care package of support in the community.
People who are referred and meet the eligibility criteria of their local wheelchair service, and people already registered with the wheelchair service, when they require a new wheelchair either through a change in clinical needs or in the condition of the current chair. This group will have a right to a personal wheelchair budget to give them more choice and flexibility over the chair provided.
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are encouraged to expand their local personal health budget offer to others who could benefit.
Clinical team
Keri Lewis
Communications and Network Manager - Personal Health Budget Delivery Team, NHS England
Bernadette Simpson
Workforce Advisor - Integrated Personal Commissioning and Personal Health Budgets, NHS England
Anita Kromer
Senior Programme Manager Personalised Care (Personal Health Budgets) – NHS England and NHS Improvement
Sarah Leach
Senior Project Manager Personalised Care (Personal Health Budgets) – NHS England and NHS Improvement
Project team
Clair Guy
Project Manager, HEE elearning for healthcare
Steve Gibbons
Learning Designer, HEE elearning for healthcare
How to access
In order to access the Personal Health Budgets programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.
To view the Personal Health Budgets programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.
NHS healthcare staff in England
The Personal Health Budgets programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this elearning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.
Further details are available here.
Not an NHS organisation?
If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.
To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the ‘OpenAthens’ portal.
Registering large numbers of users
If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Personal Health Budgets programme, please contact elfh directly.
Organisations wishing to use their own LMS
For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.
More information
Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.