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Personal Health Budgets Pilot

Patients are to be given cash to purchase their own NHS care for the first time under a new Government scheme.

The pilot scheme offers patients with a variety of conditions the chance to have more control over how money is spent on their healthcare.

The Primary Care Trusts road testing the personal health budgets are:

Doncaster PCT
Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT
Central London (Hammersmith and Fulham PCT, Kensington and Chelsea PCT and Westminster PCT)
Islington PCT
Merseyside (Knowsley PCT, Liverpool PCT and Sefton PCT)
Oxford PCT
Somerset PCT
West Sussex PCT

If you would like to take part in the pilot which will run till 2012 please ask your GP.