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Local commissioning

The resources on this page include guidance and practical tools about the promotion of joint strategic work to improve health and wellbeing.

There are suggestions about how housing organisations can work with providers and commissioner of healthcare drawing on a growing evidence base from latest health and housing research.

For local examples of Housing, Health and Care MoUs, visit our dedicated page.

Health and wellbeing boards: draft guidance for engagement

This draft guidance for engagement sets out the role of health and wellbeing boards following publication of the Health and Care Act 2022.

What a difference a place makes: the growing impact of health and wellbeing boards

This resource captures the achievements, challenges and learning from 22 effective health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) across the country.

Free personal care: how to eliminate catastrophic costs

This new report from Independent Age looks at the benefits of providing free personal care for everyone who needs it.

Housing and health: Opportunities for sustainability and transformation partnerships

The King's Fund have released this report with support from the NHF with the intention of helping those leading and contributing to STPs and ICSs make the most of the contribution that housing can make to health.

Adding extra years to life and extra life to those years

This LGA guide gives examples as to how to improve health issues in later life. Provided alongside health suggestions are case studies from councils across the country, who are combatting these issues.

How are vanguards implementing digital innovation?

The report, titled ‘New Care Models: Harnessing Technology’ describes how the starting point for any project introducing new technology should be the perspective of the end users.

Sustainability and transformation plans in London: an independent analysis of the October 2016 STPs

This report, authored by The Kings Fund and the Nuffield Trust, and commissioned by the Mayor of London, looks at the five STPs in London, their contents and common themes.

Improving the Health, Housing and Ageing Evidence Base

This Care & Repair England flyer on its Catch 22 project identifies the aims of the project, current issues and the action being taken to improve the health, housing and ageing evidence base

Health and housing: building the evidence base

This Housing LIN Report concludes that housing and related services can promote integrated care, save the NHS money and improve the patient experience.

Delivering sustainability and transformation plans - From ambitious proposals to credible plans

This King's Fund report examines the content of the 44 sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) that were submitted in October 2016. STPs are the main vehicle for transforming health and care...

Housing and Wellbeing briefing

This paper by What Works Centre for Wellbeing offers a broad overview of evidence on the links between housing and housing interventions and wellbeing. The paper summarises findings from 50 published...

Health Begins at Home (final report)

This report by Family Mosaic housing association, in conjunction with the LSE, says that housing providers can have a positive impact on their residents' health and, at the same time, reduce NHS usage,...

Collaborative Healthcare: Supporting CCGs and HWBs to support integrated personal commissioning and collaborative care

This guide by Inclusive Change, the national partnership set up to help people "live good lives in good places", shows how small-scale community projects are already delivering major health benefits...

Prescription to Success: A guide to the health economy

This new guide by the NHF provides useful content that can be used to transform housing associations' offer to health, enabling them to build a robust business case to commissioners and become a crucial...

A new settlement for health and social care

The King's Fund have published an interim report from the independent Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England. 'A new settlement for health and social care' argues for better alignment...

Community Services: how they can transform care

This King's Fund report argues that significant changes to community services are needed to realise the ambition of moving more care out of hospital and closer to people's homes. Taking a fresh look...

Health begins at Home

This new pamphlet provides interim results at 6 months from a fascinating Family Mosaic research project being undertaken by the London School of Economics. It seeks to measure and test out the impact...

Routes into Health: Clinical commissioning groups and commissioning support units

This briefing from the NHF gives an overview of the structure and governance of CCGs, with a sense of who has most influence provide information on the types of services CCGs commission and their relationship...

Routes into Health: Housing and Wellbeing Boards

This briefing from the NHF for the housing association sector provides a useful summary of the relationship between housing and health and wellbeing boards. It gives an overview of the structure and...

Operating principles for Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies: enabling joint decisions making for improved health and wellbeing

Developed by a multi-agency group it provides guidance on effective joint working at the strategic level to improve health and wellbeing in local populations.

Encouraging integrated working for adults and older people: a practical guide for health and wellbeing boards

Provides suggestions, questions and case studies about how to build trust and shared values between board members as the basis for effective planning.

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and Health and Wellbeing Boards

Health and Wellbeing Boards are being set up in all areas and have Clinical Commissioning groups and Local Authorities as core members. The Boards are responsible for producing Joint Strategic Needs...

The new NHS commissioning landscape and its impact on housing and care for older people

A briefing paper that describes the reforms to healthcare commissioning especially Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and suggests useful tools and evidence on financial and other benefits to health...

Health, Wellbeing and the Older People's Housing Agenda

One of three SHOP briefing papers from the Housing LIN, written primarily for Health and Wellbeing Boards. Intended to increase understanding of the impact of poor housing on the health and wellbeing...

Joint strategic needs assessment: vulnerable adults, housing and support - A collection of case studies

This publication by the Local Government Improvement and Development's Healthy Communities Programme provides examples of how local councils and their health partners are addressing some of the outstanding...

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and Housing: report of a study based on the South East region

This Housing LIN Report is based on a study of documents produced in the South East of England as part of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) process. The aim of the study was to examine the...

Board Assurance Prompts - telecare and telehealth

Three brief papers that describe the background, benefits and examples of introducing assistive technology in housing. Written for the boards of organisations involved in general, specialised and housing...

Get with the programme? - A look at health and wellbeing boards through the lens of telehealth and telecare.

This Housing LIN Viewpoint no 34 assesses the progress of health and wellbeing boards in making headway with the adoption of telecare and telehealth, and what this tells us about their readiness to live...