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Integrated Living Network
"Supporting the joint commissioning and delivery of integrated services across housing, health and social care"
Joint commissioning is about commissioning for life. The linkages between the housing, health and social care sectors has long been known. Poor housing conditions, poverty, isolation and market decline have clear detrimental effects on health and well-being. The role of housing in commissioning and delivery partnerships is therefore crucial to delivering on outcomes that improve quality of life.
Responding to Change
The Governments vision of a radical and sustained shift in the way services are delivered, towards better prevention, greater access to health and social care services in the community, increased choice and continuing integration of housing, health and social care services drives forward challenges for organisations to commission and deliver services more strategically. Recent White Papers, LAAs, the new Supporting People strategy and the forthcoming National Strategy for Housing an Ageing Society, comprehensive area assessments, and practice based commissioning are driving strong links for re-designing services with a particular focus on partnership.
The housing sector is already responding through the DWP Link Age Plus pilots, the DH Partnership for Older People Projects, Extra Care Housing, the Supporting People Value Improvement Projects and the telecare agenda. In the recent DH Commissioning Framework for Health and Well-being, the Government makes clear the need for greater integration across health and social care and we hope this will provides us with greater opportunities to integrate, promote well being and build truly sustainable communities.
Supporting Delivery
The Integrated Living Network is a one of the newest networks delivered by the Northern Housing Consortium which aims to support the housing sector to improve the well-being of the tenants and the communities in which they live by working in more effective partnerships with health and social care. The ILN will provide practical support including policy analysis, briefing papers, toolkits, conferences, networking opportunities and procurement solutions delivered through four key workstreams - reshaping service delivery, preventative services, measuring outcomes and resources.
We are working with a range of experts and look forward to bringing further outputs which address some of the key future challenges facing our members. These include:-
- Gathering baseline evidence of the health and wellbeing of our communities
- Measuring the impact of housing interventions on health
- Implications of Individual Budgets on commissioning and contracting
- Regional models of capital and revenue funding alignment
- Appraisal and sustainability of traditional sheltered housing