Personal health budgets are a way of offering individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions greater choice and control in how the NHS supports them in improving their health and managing their care.

NHS England is working with partners across education and social care to support more young people with complex health needs to access personal health budgets.

A personal wheelchair budget is a resource available to support people’s choice of wheelchair, either within NHS commissioned services or outside NHS commissioned services.

Adults who are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) funding have had a legal right to have a personal health budget since October 2014. NHS England and NHS Improvement expects that unless there are exceptional circumstances, everyone living in their own home who is in receipt of NHS Continuing Healthcare funding will have a personal health budget.