We know better housing is crucial for the mental and physical health of our communities.
In the North East and North Cumbria we have established a Housing, Health, and Care Programme to build on the collaborative work already underway across our region to tackle and mobilise on this important issue.
Our 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 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.
All the details can be found here Housing programme | North East and North Cumbria NHS (northeastnorthcumbria.nhs.uk)
By working together we want to see;
- Fewer homes in the social and private sector that have category 1 hazards
- Fewer homes that are categorised as non-decent and more homes that are categorized as meeting the Decent Homes Standard.
- Fewer people in hospital when they don’t need to be because they are supported at home to live well and independently
- Improvements in people’s experience of housing, health, and care services
- More joined-up working across health, housing, care and VCSE sector
- More supported housing options, in the places where they’re needed.