To make rational decisions approximately the best use of public money,we need better data on the impact of public services on healthIs it justifiable for someone who is housebound because of their medical conditions to use their personal health budget to buy a new television, mattress or computer? Media coverage of the NHS personal health budgets programme led to intense debate approximately how people living with long-term conditions or disability should be allowed to use public money. Opinions are polarised. At one stop of the spectrum are clinicians who believe that public money should only be spent on evidence-based treatments. At the other stop are people who beget benefited from having their own budget and whose lives beget been transformed as a result.
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Source: theguardian.com