Video: Mike McCarron on the opportunities and potential pitfalls of personalised budgets

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1) Website: Scotland's Futures Forum

A systemsmapping approach to how Scotland can reduce the damage to its population through alcohol and drugs by half by 2025

2) Article: Doubts raised over plan to give personal budgets to NHS patients: Guardian UK Jan 2009

Doubts raised over plan to give personal budgets to NHS patients: Guardian UK Jan 2009

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Mike McCarron on the opportunities and potential pitfalls of personalised budgets