1 / 12

In for a penny, in for a pound : tackling cold related ill health in County Durham

In for a penny, in for a pound : tackling cold related ill health in County Durham. Tim Wright, Public Health Portfolio Lead. Overview. Context Background Warm & healthy homes Strenghts/weknesses What next?. Context.

maubrey
Download Presentation

In for a penny, in for a pound : tackling cold related ill health in County Durham

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. In for a penny, in for a pound: tackling cold related ill health in County Durham Tim Wright, Public Health Portfolio Lead

  2. Overview • Context • Background • Warm & healthy homes • Strenghts/weknesses • What next?

  3. Context • Excess winter deaths index of 19, 314 people. Not significantly different to England average • 22.7% children in poverty (sig.worse than England) • Disease prevalence by CCG is 20% greater than England for CHD, Stroke/TIA, COPD, LDs’

  4. Context (cont’d) • Housing stock condition • 100 communities off gas network

  5. Background • History early 2000s’ LAs’/NHS NRF • 2008 ‘Rights to Warmth’/Hotspots’ (early adopter of model of NG6). • Durham Dales ICO, 2009-11. • DH Warm & Healthy Homes funding. • NEPHO baseline (2009) and 2 year follow up reports, (2011) • NEA evaluation of Hotspots, 2013 • DECC Health booster fund

  6. Warm & healthy homes • Reduce numbers of excess winter deaths • Reduce hospital emergency admissions • Improve the health and wellbeing of clients living in a cold, damp home • Provide warmer homes, lower fuel bills • Reduce levels of fuel poverty

  7. Warm & healthy homes (cont’) • Eligibility criteria • Training/briefing of health/social care staff. • Menu of options • Annual report 2015/16

  8. Warm & healthy homes

  9. Strengths • Programme consistency • Well targeted • Strategically embedded • Advocates who push agenda • Engaged in national pilots eg ICO Dales/ funding bids • Cyclical feedback system • Utilisation of MECC

  10. Weaknesses • Targeted intervention ? Scale • Outputs v outcomes • Small investment • Little CCG recognition/engagement • Not embedded into patient pathways. • Not promoted extensively • Tinkering at the edges

  11. What next? • More robust links with primary care. • Targeted programme eg South Hetton. • Piggyback onto social prescribing. • ? Outcome based commissioning. • Loan based system • Private rented sector • Registered providers • FUSE supported seminar March 2017

More Related