Personalised care
Personalised care means you have more choice and control over the way your healthcare is planned and delivered. It focuses on what matters to you, as well as your circumstances and preferences. There are different aspects to personalised care.
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Shared decision-making
Shared decision-making puts patients at the centre of decisions about their care and treatment. It is a discussion where a healthcare professional, such as a GP or hospital consultant, supports a patient to reach a decision about their treatment. -
Patient choice
You have a right to choose your GP practice or where you have other NHS treatment. Here we explain your choices in healthcare, where to find information to help choose and how to complain if choice is not offered. -
Personal Health Budgets
A personal health budget is an amount of money to support someone’s health and wellbeing needs, which is planned and agreed between the individual or their representative, and their local NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB) or NHS team.