1. TLAP Partnership Meeting
Gathering the Evidence for Personal Budgets: Making Personal Budgets Work for All

2. What this presentation is about
Background information
Key messages about personal budgets
Suggestions so that personal budgets work better for all
What National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) think about this
Next steps – action with help from partners

3. Background information
National Audit Office (NAO) said there isn’t enough clear evidence for how personal budgets effect people
TLAP had a meeting to talk about what can be done.
All our suggestions are about being better at collecting evidence so that personal budgets work better for everyone

4. Key messages about personal budgets
Personal budgets isn’t just about money
We need lots of ways to collect evidence for how personal budgets work
We should make better use of the information we already have
We need a clear, long term way to measure the effect of personal budgets.

5. Suggestions Make better the evidence we already have
Encourage more and more councils to ask people & carers how they get on with personal budgets
Work with NHS Digital to help councils do this.

6. Suggestions 2.Use co-production
Use Making it Real to help collect the evidence for personal budgets
Agree common questions that all councils and providers can ask people who use services and carers to help us understand

7. Suggestions
3. Improve how we share information about what works
Work with IPC team, NHS England & Coalition for Collaborative Care to share good practice on personal budgets and personalisation
Work with NICE to get better at collecting evidence in a reliable way.

8. Suggestions
4. Making a plan for the future for how to collect evidence for personal budgets
Arrange long term studies that find out about experience of different groups of people
Help councils and providers collect information about personal budget in a regular way

9. Next steps Information from NICE to help us
Ideas from everyone at the Partnership day for how we can do this work
Publish the report
Agree how we go forward with this work