the idea of the personal health budgets. around for a little while. 23,000 people have personal health budgets. it isa people have personal health budgets. it is a little—known initiative. it will be rolled out for hundreds of thousands of people. this is people with complex needs and things like dementia, a physical learning disability, something like that. they will work out how they want to allocate personal health budgets. this is a controversial idea. left—wing and right—wing argument against it. on the left, will some say it is a stealth privatisation of the nhs. they think that of many things the conservatives do. on the right, money can be splashed in frivolous ways. aromatherapy for example. they may think, and i think this is correct, we should let experts, doctors, who have trained for years and years and years, we should let them decide where to spend money. clearly, there is a thought that individuals who may not fully understand the condition they have, let alone have the understanding of the best treatment, th