Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) and National Voices have launched a new resource to describe what personalised, coordinated care and support should look like for people with mental health needs.   ‘No Assumptions – A Narrative for Personalised, Coordinated Care and Support in Mental Health’ describes the critical outcomes and success factors in the care, support and treatment of people who use mental health from their perspective.   The narrative will help NHS and council…

Martin Routledge, In Control’s head of operations, has been seconded from In Control to become director of the Coalition for Collaborative Care (C4CC). The C4CC is a new group of individuals and organisations from the health, social care and voluntary sectors who want to make person-centred, coordinated care a reality for people living with long-term conditions. The C4CC will work directly with local communities to make the changes needed and will share learning and work…

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a new paper ‘Towards whole person care’. This paper reviews the case for change in the English health and care system and considers how to move towards a ‘whole person care’ approach. It sets out broad themes that IPPR intends to return to in its wider work on creating a health and care system that is fit for the future.   The shadow secretary of state…

In Control, in partnership with KIDS, the Office for Public Management (OPM), the Family and Childcare Trust and the National Association of Family Information Services (NAFIS) has launched a series of guides on personalisation and personal budgets.   The guides, have been part of the ‘Making it Personal: 2’ programme of work which has been funded by the Department of Health.   The organisations involved have worked alongside a number of local voluntary and statutory…

This guest post is by Vidhya Alakeson, one of In Control’s associates and Deputy Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation. Vidhya is a leading consultant in the personalisation of health and social care. She is an internationally recognised expert on personal health budgets and has been closely involved in the development and implementation of personalisation in the NHS. Yesterday 56,000 people who are eligible for continuing healthcare got the right to have that care delivered…

In Control, Lancaster University and Think Local Act Personal have today Tuesday October 28th published the Third National Personal Budget Survey sharing the experiences of more than 4,000 people with personal budgets and their carers.   The report, focuses on the use of personal budgets in adult social services and health across England and is the largest survey to date looking at the impact that personal budgets are having on people’s lives.   More than 80…

In Control, Lancaster University and Think Local Act Personal have today, Tuesday 28th October 2014, published a national survey of the experiences of 129 personal health budget holders and 101 carers to look at the impact that personal health budgets are having on people’s lives.   Twenty-two different NHS and council organisations in 13 areas took part in the survey, which aims to  identify the critical process conditions that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), local authorities and partner…

Parents and young people themselves should be at the heart of checking and improving Education Health and Care Plans (EHC) and personal budgets under the SEND reforms according to a the report we published in the summer.   The report ‘Measuring the outcomes of EHC plans and personal budgets’ shows how this can be done via a pilot survey of 133 people from six council areas carried out by In Control with Lancaster University, and supported…