National Energy Action’s Warm Homes, Healthy Futures is a nationally coordinated network of locally delivered services that will tackle fuel poverty and improve health for tens of thousands of people across Great Britain. The programme will enable effective partnership working between health, energy and housing in various local areas.
The link between cold homes and unhealthy futures
The situation is extremely costly for the NHS, with the estimated annual spend on treating the health impacts of cold homes exceeding £1.4 billion. This rises to more than £18 billion per year when factoring in wider societal costs. Each year, more than 10,000 deaths are attributable to living in cold, damp, poor quality housing – deaths that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says are preventable and avoidable.
Support delivered on prescription
More than 20 Warm Homes, Healthy Futures areas have been identified so far. These areas will see National Energy Action deliver support ‘on prescription’ by working with key partners in health and housing, alongside established and trusted local delivery agencies to reach people with health conditions, living in or at risk of fuel poverty.
Energy Projects Plus is delighted to announce we’re delivering a Warm Homes, Healthy Futures project in the Liverpool area, to support patients with chronic health conditions made worse by cold living conditions, who have postcodes beginning with L.
The programme will deliver:
- Benefit checks and claim support
- Boiler servicing
- Provision of carbon monoxide monitors
- Support accessing the Priority Services Register
Warm Homes, Healthy Futures will run until March 2026 and is funded by the Vulnerability and Carbon Monoxide Allowance Fund.
To find out more, contact our Business Relationship Manager, Dominic Griffiths, at dominic.griffiths@epplus.org.