Policy paper

Improving health and care through the home: MoU

Over 25 stakeholders give a renewed commitment to joint action across government, health, social care and housing sectors to improving health through the home.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 19 March 2018

Documents

Improving health and care through the home: a national memorandum of understanding

Ref: PHE publications gateway number 2017861

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This renewed memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed by over 25 government bodies and organisations in the health, social care and housing sector. It sets out:

• our shared commitment to joint action across government, health, social care and housing sectors in England

• principles for joint working for better health and wellbeing outcomes, and to reduce health inequalities

• a framework for national and local cross-sector partnerships to provide healthy homes, communities and neighbourhoods

• conditions for developing integrated and effective services to meet the needs of individuals, carers and families with a range of local stakeholders

• what shared success might look like

The organisations signed up to this MoU are:

• Alzheimer’s Society
• Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
• Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH)
• Building Research Establishment (BRE)
• Care & Repair England
• Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
• Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Foundations
• Homeless Link
• Homes England (formerly Homes and Communities Agency)
• Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust (HACT)
• Housing Learning and Improvement Network (Housing LIN)
• Local Government Association (LGA)
• Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
• National Housing Federation (NHF)
• (New) NHS Alliance
• NHS England
• NHS Property Services (PropCo)
• NHS Providers (formerly Foundation Trust Network)
• Public Health England (PHE)
• Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT)
• Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)
• Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
• Skills for Care
• St Mungo’s

Published 19 March 2018