Preventing Illness by Tackling Cold Homes Cold Homes Phillip Morris PITCH Project Director
Bristol context Bristol context Better Care Bristol • Health inequalities across Bristol – we want to reduce these • We want to keep people in their homes for as long as possible • ‘Over next 10 years bristol expect a 16.5% increase in the number of older people that require support from adult and social care’ • Single point of access
What we have done in the past? • Trained frontline health workers e g district nurses • Trained frontline health workers e.g. district nurses • Small pilots with GPs – mail out, contacted all GPs • Public Health funding for our impartial advice service • Staff in GP surgery • Staff in GP surgery • Spoken at Health and Wellbeing Boards • Childhood asthma project
What needed to change? • Senior buy in • Part of commissioned services • Part of how people work as normal with patients Part of how people work as normal with patients • Actually realise the potential for referrals
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Bristol European Green Capital Strategic Funding 1 1. Engage Bristol health service at a senior level E B i t l h lth i t i l l 2. Encourage commissioners to include cold homes referrals so that systems are changed 3 3. Train staff on the ground Train staff on the ground 4. Run a GP pilot 5. Develop the partnerships needed for an Action on Cold Homes Referral Network Cold Homes Referral Network
1 Engage Bristol health service at a senior level 1. Engage Bristol health service at a senior level Support secured from: Support secured from: • CCG • Better Care Bristol • Public Health Public Health • Strategic Commissioning • Bristol Community Health
2. Encourage commissioners to include cold 2. Encourage commissioners to include cold homes referrals S Systems: t Commissioning: i i i • Challenging! • Total Mobile • Does not fit with • SystmOne and EMIS current procured current procured Web Web targets • Too niche or small to • Too niche or small to fit in larger procurement procurement
S Social Prescribing i l P ibi W We will provide a single point of contact ill id i l i t f t t for cold homes referrals for the single g point of contact…
3 Training 3. Training In the future In the future Already trained Already trained • Social care staff • F2 Doctors • Health trainers • GPs • Wellbeing Partners Wellbeing Partners • Financial • Financial assessment officers • District nurses, community • Health Champions matrons… • Pharmacies Pharmacies
4 GP Pilots 4. GP Pilots • Working with 7 GP practices (so far) • Working as part of wider Green Impacts project j • Mail out to at risk patients Mail out to at risk patients • Promotion in the surgery
5. Single Point 5. Single Point of Contact for cold homes ld h referrals
What next/opportunities h / i i
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