Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients that used the NHS personalised care model in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.

The comprehensive model for personalised care is made up of six key components:

- Patient Choice;

- Patient Activation;

- Social Prescribing;

- Shared decision making;

- Personalised care and support planning; and

- Personal health budgets.

This is a new model which was developed through the Integrated Personal Commissioning and Empowering People and Communities programmes. The components were tested in 2017/18 across 21 demonstrator sites, who reported 180,000 personalised care interventions for 2017/18. Sites are now rolling out the model and in Q2 2018/19 reported 280,000 personalised care interventions.

The intention, as set in the NHS Long Term Plan, is to roll out beyond demonstrator sites to reach 2.5 million people by 2023/24.

There is a national data collection for personal health budgets. The number of people with a personal health budget was:

- 15,811 in 2016/17;

- 28,040 in 2017/18; and

- 32,341 in 2018/19 (latest figure from Q2).