PHB Delivery Support
Practical support to strengthen how Personal Health Budgets are delivered
Personal Health Budgets rely on more than policy.
Effective delivery requires good care and support planning, appropriate governance, workable budgets, clear responsibilities and arrangements that can operate in practice for both NHS teams and families.
Thrive works with NHS teams to identify and address practical barriers to effective PHB delivery.
Support can focus on a particular challenge or form part of a wider review of PHB delivery.
Care Planning & Support Plans
Good Personal Health Budget delivery starts with understanding what needs to be achieved and how care will actually be delivered.
Thrive can support the development and review of care and support plans for people with complex needs, helping translate assessed needs and outcomes into practical arrangements.
This can also help identify wider issues affecting delivery, including workforce requirements, training, delegation, responsibilities and budget assumptions.
PHB Delivery Optimisation
Sometimes the challenge isn't an individual PHB. It's the pathway around it.
Thrive can work with NHS teams to examine how Personal Health Budgets and Direct Payments operate in practice.
This can include reviewing:
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Current pathways and processes
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Roles and responsibilities
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Governance arrangements
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Budget development
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Workforce considerations
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Information and support for families
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Barriers to Direct Payment uptake
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Variation between policy and operational delivery
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Opportunities for greater sustainability and efficiency
The aim is to identify practical improvements rather than simply produce another review.
Family Transitions to Direct Payments
Where agency arrangements are no longer meeting the needs of a family or system, a Direct Payment may provide an alternative.
Thrive provides structured support for agreed transitions from agency provision to Direct Payments, helping NHS teams and families work through the practical, workforce and governance requirements involved.
From understanding the problem to embedding improvement
Support can range from examining a specific delivery challenge through to helping implement and embed change.
Our approach can include:
Discover - Understand current delivery, data, pathways, barriers and opportunities.
Transform - Work with teams and families to implement practical improvements.
Scale - Embed learning through processes, training, tools and measurement.
The approach is tailored to the problem being addressed rather than requiring organisations to purchase a fixed programme.