[Margaret Pilkington]

These personal health budgets were brought in by Lord Darzi.....a labour politician.....who also was in favour of privatisation in the NHS.
I think that it was in 2008 that he put forward the idea of personal health budgets.

I am not entirely sure how these health budgets work, but they tend to be applied to patients who have long term health care needs, mental health issues and the like. I do not know how they are regulated, but they are mainly used to buy care packages.
You or I would not be able to go to our GP and get a holiday, fiddle lessons or a Wii fit machine.