Health and Housing - Health Intel

With the escalating incidence of coronavirus in the UK, it is essential for those working in our sector are fully aware of the seriousness of COVID-19 and the risk to both our own lives and the public at large.

This resource has a variety of useful datasets and tools that public health teams, primary care and acute health services use to better understand local health inequalities. It can also help you and your partners measure demand on planned and unplanned care and/or predict patient pathways.

Access information on the new health landscape and what factors local commissioners and clinicians are looking at to deliver better health and wellbeing outcomes. It explains the new models of care highlighted in the NHS five Year Forward View.

You can find here the latest guidance, tools, case studies and recommendations about integration and partnership working between organisations in health, housing and care. For example, do you know your Vanguard sites from the Better Care Fund?

Get up to speed with helpful resources and practice examples of at-home care and support. The examples illustrate how older people have returned home and regained their health and independence following a hospital admission.

Poor housing costs the NHS £1.4b a year. Read examples of cost savings and health benefits from a range of preventive housing interventions. For example, reducing the risk of falls or support to regain independence at home can save the NHS and other service millions of pounds.

Public health is critical in supporting interventions that tackle health inequality. Find out how housing, preventing homelessness and environmental health can promote and sustain healthy lifestyles and increase healthy life expectancy.

As people age the risk of developing long term conditions increases. Find out how best to develop your strategies to help people affected by conditions such as circulatory disease, diabetes, arthritis and respiratory conditions.

It is estimated that £6b of NHS estate is surplus to requirements. You can access here the latest resources, guidance and examples of where former NHS land is surplus to local requirements due to service changes. Much is being converted to residential use.

Do we have the workforce to care for an ageing population? Find information on creative leadership, service innovation and workforce development to help meet outcomes that support care closer to home.

This free online resource for practitioners working across housing, adult social care, public health and for primary care practitioners lists relevant policy and showcases examples of practice that have either helped to transform people's lives and/or improve local service delivery.

The Housing LIN is involved in the consortia working with NHS England to develop Healthy New Town (HNT) guidance and support knowledge diffusion. We have created a selection of pages that provide background information on the HNT programme and the 10 demonstrator sites, as well as signpost to relevant thought-leadership, a range of tools and guidance, and examples of practice.