Housing to Health

The Housing to Health scheme aims to ease the strain on the health service and adult social care by finding suitable homes to speed up a patient’s discharge from hospital, or directing people at risk of being admitted to hospital due to poor living conditions into good quality social housing.

The project is delivered by Nottingham City Council Housing Services, funded by Nottingham City Council Housing Services and Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

Housing to Health Co-ordinators take referrals from health professionals in the hospital where the patient is unable to return home, or in the community where the home is unsuitable. The aim of the scheme is to intervene at an earlier stage to support and enhance the best possible outcomes for citizens and their carers, and hopefully reduce the number of (re-)admissions into hospital.

What are the benefits?

Reducing delayed discharges to:

• save the NHS money
• free up high demand hospital beds
• reduce the number of empty homes
• free up high demand / under occupation of homes

Helping people to stay healthy, for longer, by:

• encouraging proactive referrals
• preventing hospital admissions / re-admissions
• providing appropriate accommodation that are safer for people to live in
• reducing the need for costly adaptations

 To find out more about Housing to Health, go to the Nottingham HomeLink website. Here you'll be able to complete a short form to refer somebody who might benefit from the service. Alternatively, email housingtohealth@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.