Across the North East and North Cumbria, organisations have come together to establish a Housing, Health, and Care Programme to build on the collaborative work already underway to tackle and mobilise on this important issue. The programme is the region’s sector-led improvement initiative focused on delivering better, more integrated housing, care, and support so that people can be healthy, live well, and stay independent in their own home.
The programme has launched a series of monthly webinars, hosted by the Northern Housing Consortium, for people working across health, housing and care to learn, share best practice and design solutions together.
Join the second webinar ‘Home is where health begins – social prescribing approaches’ which will be held online on Tuesday 11 February from 10-12pm.
The webinar will explore how social prescribing connects people to non-medical services, such as housing, to address underlying social, economic, and environmental factors affecting health and wellbeing. With housing being a critical social determinant of health, the event will highlight innovative strategies, successful case studies, and collaborative frameworks that bridge the gap between housing providers and healthcare services.
There will be opportunities to engage in discussions about how partnerships between these sectors can lead to healthier and more resilient communities.
Speakers will be confirmed soon.
This session is relevant to anyone working across health, housing and social care and specifically working in the field of data and housing and health services.
The session will be held on Microsoft Teams and a link will be shared 3-5 days before the event. To book your place, please email [email protected]
Please feel free to forward this invite to relevant colleagues.
The Housing, Health and Care Programme has been co-created by the North East branch of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), the NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, the Northern Housing Consortium, and the TEC Services Association (TSA); with many other partners involved too.
The programme has recently launched a five-year roadmap which sets out ambitions to improve housing, health and care for local communities. It has been developed from a recent review by the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN) which highlights the region’s pressing housing needs, and is based on insights and feedback from events, roundtables and the programme’s community of practice. The roadmap is now being shared with organisations across the region as they look to develop more detailed plans to deliver ambitions and change. Read more about the programme and a summary of the baseline review and five year plan here.
