Personal Health Budget Reviews
Already in receipt of CHC funding? Your Personal Health Budget should reflect actual care needs. We review allocations, identify underfunding, and challenge the ICB where needed.
What does Personal Health Budget Review include?
A Personal Health Budget is an amount of NHS money available to someone who has been assessed as eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare. Rather than the NHS commissioning care directly, the individual (or a representative) takes control of the budget and purchases care that meets their agreed care plan. The budget should be set at a level that genuinely meets the person's assessed needs - but in many cases it is set below what is actually required.
Where a PHB is inadequate, the shortfall either falls on the family to make up privately, or the person's needs go partially unmet. SG67 reviews the allocation and, where underfunding is identified, challenges the ICB to uprate the budget to an appropriate level.
Who is this for?
This service is for you if:
Your loved one is already receiving CHC funding via a Personal Health Budget
You believe the PHB allocation is insufficient to meet their actual care needs
The care plan funded by the PHB does not fully reflect the person's needs or preferences
You are considering switching from a managed care package to a PHB and want independent advice
The ICB has proposed reducing the PHB at a review and you want to challenge that decision
What We Do
When SG67 takes on a case, we manage the process from start to finish:
Review the current PHB allocation against the person's assessed needs and care plan
Identify any gap between the budget and the actual cost of meeting those needs
Produce an independent clinical analysis of the required care package
Formally challenge the ICB where the allocation is found to be inadequate
Advise on PHB management and support planning
A reviewed and corrected PHB allocation that genuinely covers the cost of the care the person needs - without the family having to make up the shortfall.