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<p>NHS England provides a comprehensive programme of training and support for clinical
commissioning groups (CCGs) to help them to develop and publish a local offer of personal
health budgets by April 2016. CCGs are now also required to include their personal
health budget offer in their Health and Wellbeing Strategies, which are published
in the public domain. To increase public awareness further, NHS England funds a national
network of people with lived experiences of personal health budgets who champion their
use both nationally and locally.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has made it clear that
CCGs have a duty to inform people who are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare that
they have the right to have a personal health budget, for example including information
in the letter that informs individuals they are eligible. NHS England is currently
consulting on the new CCG Improvement and Assessment framework, which will ask CCGs
to submit the number of personal health budgets in their local area. The results of
this will be used to inform the public of how many personal health budgets have been
given locally and how their area compares with the rest of the country.</p>
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