A personal health budget is an amount of money to support a person’s health and wellbeing needs.  This money can help people with a learning disability, autism or both live at home and not in a hospital.

It is not new money but rather the money that would normally have been spent by the NHS on a person’s care being used in a more flexible way to meet their needs.

You can find more information about who can have a personal health budget on the NHS website or read about how other people have used them on our personal health budgets in pages: NHS England » Personal health budgets for people with a learning disability or autism or both

Case study

Find out how Christina uses a personal health budget to get more appropriate care in Leeds.