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Personal Health Budget (PHB)

A Personal Health Budget (PHB) is one way of personalising people's care to ensure they get the care they need. A personal health budget is an amount of money to support a person's identified health and wellbeing needs, planned and agreed between the person and their local NHS team, or with a partner organisation on behalf of the NHS (such as a local authority).

The NHS Mandate sets an ambitious objective that between 200,000 people will have a personal health budget by 2021/22. The Operational Planning Guidance required Integrated Health Boards (ICBs) to submit trajectories via their ICS for the numbers of personal health budgets to be in place by end 2023/24. In December 2019 the legal ‘right to have’ a personal health budget was extended from NHS continuing healthcare, and children and young people’s continuing care to include Section 117 Mental Health Aftercare and people eligible for wheelchair services (Personal Wheelchair Budgets). The data collected will be used to monitor progress against trajectories and the roll out in areas with a legal right.

Personal Health Budgets submissions will be used as a measure for the ICB Improvement and Assessment Framework every three months. NHS England will use the national headline data in a variety of ways including internal and public reports/publications. ICB level data will be used internally to update regional and NHS England teams to inform ICB assurance. ICB level data will also be given to other relevant NHS England programmes for example transforming care.


Guidance


Launch and submission dates

Reporting period

Submission start

Submission deadline

Publication date

Quarter 1 2024/25

1 July 2024

22 July 2024

15 August 2024

Quarter 2 2024/25

1 October 2024

22 October 2024

14 November 2024

Quarter 3 2024/25

2 January 2025

23 January 2025

13 February 2025

Quarter 4 2024/25

1 April 2025

22 April 2025

15 May 2025

Quarter 1 2025/26 1 July 2025 22 July 2025 14 August 2025
Quarter 2 2025/26 1 October 2025 22 October 2025 13 November 2025
Quarter 3 2025/26 2 January 2026 23 January 2026 12 February 2026
Quarter 4 2025/26 1 April 2026 22 April 2026  14 May 2026 

Statistical publication series

Last edited: 27 November 2024 3:12 pm