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Government sets out plans to consult on a 10-year NHS Plan

The government has announced plans to consult with the public on its plans to formulate a 10-year NHS Plan. To find out more and to have your say, visit NHS England’s website to access the consultation page.

Are you applying to the NIHR Research Programme for Social Care research calls? Engage with us

The NIHR Research Programme for Social Care (RPSC) currently has 2 calls open which reference technology and housing respectively.

If your organisation is looking to make an application and would like Housing LIN involvement in your proposal, get in touch so we can discuss how best to support your bid.

Resource Roundup

HAPPI Hour - Putting the spotlight on Healthy Ageing, HAPPI Homes and Happy Cities

Catch our latest HAPPI Hour recording! Last week's session delved into UKRI’s Healthy Ageing Challenge, featuring investments in age-inclusive products, UK-wide housing solutions, updates on the Ebbsfleet Development Coorporation Healthy New Town, and international placemaking insights from Canada’s Happy Cities toolkit.

Empowering Staff with LifeLens VR Training - Helping to Build Empathy with Sensory Challenges

LifeLens is a VR experiential learning platform which helps build empathy with the sensory challenges that can often accompany people living with dementia and ageing.

Their aim is to support those families through raising awareness of these lesser-known challenges and those designing spaces to improve quality of life and extend independent living.

Safe Homes Now Spotlight: Older people in poor-quality housing

Part of the Centre for Ageing Better's Safe Homes Now spotlight series, this first report, with Independent Age, looks at the impact of poor-quality housing on older people and highlights the urgent need for action.

Healthier Lives Across Generations: A Blueprint for Intergenerational Living

This American report by Generations United, offers strategies for addressing barriers to the expansion and scaling of this promising housing alternative.

The Blueprint is centered on the need for safe and sustainable housing that improves health and well-being among people with low or moderate incomes who have historically been left out of affordable and accessible living options.

Impact Report: The Age Friendly Social Housing Programme

Drawing on learning from HACT's two-year programme in three parts of the UK, this report reviews the programme's activities and considers key lessons and insights, highlighting the ways housing associations, with local people and partners, can create more age-friendly social housing and communities.

Expert Insights

Planning for 21st Century HAPPI New Towns

In this blog, Kevin McGeough, Head of Strategy and Placemaking at Ebbsfleet Development Coorporation, talks about the evolution of 21st-century New Towns, drawing from the UK’s proud legacy of planned communities that improved health and productivity.

Check out Kevin's recent HAPPI Hour recording on Healthy Ageing, HAPPI Homes and Happy Cities here.

Dates for your diary

Welcome to our autumn/winter HAPPI Hour webinar series! Each session will feature a variety of guest speakers from across housing, health, and social care sectors, offering valuable perspectives and expertise.

All forthcoming HAPPI Hour webinars:

• Assessing for the Home Setting: Trusted approaches to assessing for accessible and adaptable homes
  29/10/2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm
   
• Housing LIN Cymru Annual Symposium: Regenerating Outdated Sheltered Housing in Wales
  12/11/2024 3:00pm - 5:00pm
   
• Health and Housing: getting the integration message across
  19/11/2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm
   
• Living Intergenerationally: finding the common ground
  26/11/2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm
   
• Delivering specialist housing in a climate of growth: Planning policy and practice developments
  03/12/2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm
   
• Dementia Friendly Technology - Still Rising to the Dementia Challenge
  10/12/2024 3:00pm - 5:00pm
   
• Is the future DIY cohousing? Can we do it for ourselves?
  19/12/2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Events supported by the Housing LIN

• Webinar: Telecare First Time Call Failures: The Silent Threat to your Customers on 07/11/2024
   
• Social Housing Annual Conference and Inside Housing Development and Regeneration Summit 2024 on 20/11/2024

Housing LIN Research and Advisory Services

Building on our highly-prized learning and improvement ethos, the Housing LIN can help you and your organisation underpin your progress in a changing and challenging work environment.

Let's Work Together! To find out how we can support your operational and/or strategic plans, contact us at consultancy@housinglin.org.uk or visit our Research and Advisory Services.