Direct payments and Personal health budgets.
Two of the main areas we help with are direct payments and personal health budgets. These are payments made by your local authority or the NHS to help you manage your own care – instead of it being delivered by health or social care services.
What is a direct payment?
Direct payments can be used to meet your personal care needs as well as help you with practical household tasks, social activities, attending appointments or for a period of respite care. How you spend your direct payment should reflect what has been agreed in your social care assessment and support plan. Direct payments allow you to receive funding from your local authority to pay for your own care services. This gives you the flexibility to control your own support package and gives you the choice on deciding on which services you need, giving you more freedom.
What is a personal health budget?
Personal health budget funding can be used to meet your personal health care needs. It is based on a personalised care and support plan agreed between you and the local clinical commissioning group or NHS team.
How can KPM Accounts help me manage a direct payment or personal health budget?
Paying an Agency or Self-employed worker
If you would like to arrange for a care provider to take care of your care needs but do not want to deal with any of the financial aspects of processing their invoice for payment then a managed account service may be for you. Please click on read more for more information regarding our managed account service.
READ MOREEmploying a Personal Care Assistant
If you would like to look into employing a Personal Assistant / Carer and need some help then our payroll service will be what you need. Please click on the read more for more information regarding our payroll services
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