Can personal budgets really deliver better outcome for all at no cost? Reviewing the evidence, costs and quality

Disability and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1029-1034

  Slasberg, Colin ^c   Beresford, Peter ^a   Schofield, Peter ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

costs; direct payments; outcomes; personal budgets; personalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869402771     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2012.736671     Document Type: Article

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