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Aims and Objectives
The UK Public Health Association & Greater Manchester Fuel Poverty Initiative is a far-reaching review of how local authorities, Primary Care Trusts, energy suppliers and other partners can work together to optimise the contribution they make to improving housing conditions for vulnerable people and reduce health inequalities
The strategic objectives of the project include creating a model which tests and encapsulates other models of best practice to;
- influence the role of health practitioners;
- build upon the relationship with the energy suppliers;
- gain the benefits of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS);
- identify creative ways in which existing resources/systems and IT might be used to meet the needs of vulnerable client groups more effectively and;
- ensure the model is replicable for use by other organisations.
The model recognises that it is not the job of Health or Social Care professionals to improve housing, but acknowledges that Health and Social Care professionals see the effects of poor housing on health through their every day work.
Health professionals can therefore assist local authorities to target those most at risk from poor housing and the project aims to develop a framework by which PCTs and LAs can work together in a practical way to bring about this improvement. In particular, it has begun to work with PCTs to identify best practice for establishing Fuel Poverty referrals within PCT policy and procedure.
Find out more about the history of the project, the UK Public Health Association and the Health and Housing Fuel Poverty Forum who manage the pilot and an archive of useful facts and figures on the Warmer Healthy Homes website. This project is supported in Greater Manchester by the Greater Manchester Public Health Network
Below are the
24 labels used in UKPHA & GM Fuel Poverty Initiative
listed alphabetically.
Click on a label to see its associated content.
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A-G
association, care, efficiency, elderly, energy, fuel, gmfpi, government, greater |
H-R
health, housing, local, manchester, network, pct, poverty, practitioners, public |
S-Z
salford, social, suppliers, uk, ukpha, vulnerable |
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