Making Winters More Comfortable

and Less Costly…..

Foundations

Independent Living Trust

The blindingly obvious

…or is it?

24,000Office for National Statistics estimate that 24,000 vulnerable

people died from preventable, cold related illnesses last year.

2.5 million2.5million homes have excess cold (Occurrence of HHSRS

Category 1 hazards, English House Condition Survey 2006)

£700 million£700m per year - costs of medical treatment resulting from

poor energy efficiency (The Real Cost of Poor Housing, BRE 2012)

Under starters orders …

1.Mobilised quickly/partner flexibility with NEA Training division

2. Up-skilled 401 casework staff across Home Improvement Agency national network to competently complete structured at-home assessments

3. DH contracting provided sufficient confidence to progress key actions concurrently given the narrow window of opportunity

Find Your Local (HIA) in a town near you!

• Easier than you think!

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• 82% of English councils are covered

• Protecting and supporting vulnerable and

older homeowners. Accredited services

• Sustaining independence in the home

• Guiding completion of small and major

adaptations c£100m pa

Who else was invited? Lots!!

• Partners• Funders• Complementary services• Volunteers• It seemed to capture the

imagination• 55 HIA s participated

across 160 local authority areas

Outputs – small measures, high

impact

• Assessments in 3,750 homes

• More than 6,000 beneficiaries

• 88% referred to handypersons /repairs

• 41% directed to health providers (surprising)

• 40% referred to CAB (not surprised)

• 1,200 jobs around home completed (thermo valves, boilers repairs, draught proofing, holes filled, radiators bled

…And suppose all this could be done in just a few months, delivering real practical work as well as linking people in to other services and support, at a cost of less than £70 per person?

Not bad when 12 minutes at GP costs £32 or £549 for a night in hospital or £519 for 12m treatment of respiratory illness

Did they make a difference?• Health and wellbeing impacts - physically

and mentally

• Better or reduced use of costly resources

• Reduced social isolation

• Improved use and/or control of heating

• Opportunity to direct to partner specialists

• Strengthening of local partnership working esp to Health and specifically GP

I think that’s a YES!

Don’t just take our

word for it

"When we visited we looked at a holistic view of that

person’s needs to continue living independently".

Lancaster HIA was designated SPOC for Health

professionals throughout the council area for affordable

warmth. PCT’s public health team led service promotion

An NHS partnership trust is seeing home-centric

interventions as means to deliver good health outcomes

Why did it work so well

• The way PH/DH Commissioned and

managed

• Simple Hub and spoke. Local delivery,

national framework.

• Light touch management but high on

accountability and results focus

• Campaign / time-bound activity

• Leveraging existing local relationships

What are we doing next

• Talking to anyone who’ll listen to us!

• Completing the Sheffield Hallam University independent evaluation

• Disseminating Findings including PHE

• Completing the investment case to build on the success of this year

Thank you for your

attention and thank you

Dept Health/Public Health

England

AndyC@Foundations.uk.

com

07540 122662