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<p>The Government has not made an assessment of whether personal health budgets are
available to people receiving National Health Service Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
that need them. Operational delivery of CHC is the responsibility of integrated care
boards (ICBs) with oversight from NHS England. Quarterly performance data is used
by regional NHS England teams to inform ICB assurance.</p><p> </p><p>Legislation requires
ICBs to provide people eligible for CHC with information about personal health budgets,
to offer them the option of taking them up, and to support them to do so.</p><p> </p><p>NHS
England expects that, unless there are exceptional circumstances, everyone living
in their own home who is in receipt of CHC funding will have a personal health budget.
In 2022/23, approximately 30,000 individuals eligible for CHC were in receipt of a
personal health budget.</p>
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