The importance of housing for delivering better outcomes for population health is being increasingly understood by health and care services. Throughout the pandemic, the benefit of a healthy home for a healthy life has become central to the nation’s fight against Covid-19. For most people, homes are no longer just a personal space but now serve as workplaces, socialising hubs and more, encapsulating all the functions of human life.
The King’s Fund organised a four-day conference, 21–24 February to explore, in-depth, how health care and housing are coming closer together and the implications of good quality housing (or lack of) for health outcomes across England.
Event topics
Some of the topics that attended explored included the:
- evolving role of the private rented sector and what it means for health outcomes
- role that integrated care systems (ICSs) can play in bringing housing and health services closer together
- links between achieving mental health wellbeing and recovering from mental ill-health and appropriate housing
- role of local government and the voluntary sector in supporting health to consider housing as part of a patient’s treatment
- leadership required to build meaningful partnerships between housing and health care staff
- importance of housing in the effort to tackle health inequalities.
Sponsorship and exhibition
If you’d like a conversation about your business goals, and how being involved in this event can help you, please email Kieran Cornwell at k.cornwell@kingsfund.org.uk
Speakers
Professor Durka Dougall
Senior Consultant and Programme Director, Leadership and Organisational Development, The King’s Fund
Andy Burnham
Mayor of Greater Manchester
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Director, Institute of Health Equity, UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Cllr Louise Gittins
Leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council, Member of the Local Government’s Association Community Wellbeing Board
Gill Leng
Health and homelessness adviser, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social
Simon Nicol
Group Director, Building Research Establishment
Olivia Butterworth
Head of Public Participation, NHS England, NHS Improvement
Samira Ben Omar
Community Organiser, Co-founder of Community Voices: Conversations for Change
Chris Naylor
Senior Policy Fellow, The King’s Fund
Dr Sridevi Kalidindi CBE
National Clinical Lead, Getting It Right First Time, Mental Health Rehabilitation, NHS England, and Improvement
Joanne Vaughan
Programme Support Manager, Healthy Places Team, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care
Leigh Pearce
Chief Executive, Nationwide Foundation
Dr Richard Turkington
Director, Housing Vision
Melanie Brooks
Corporate Director, Adult Social Care and Health, Nottinghamshire County Council
Ellie McNeil
Chief Executive Officer, YMCA Together
Jeremy Porteus
Chief Executive, Housing LIN
Sue Adams OBE
Chief Executive, Care and Repair England.
Andrew van Doorn
Chief Executive, HACT and Non-Executive Director, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Connie Jennings
Head of Health and Wellbeing,whg
Kate Shone
Managing Director, Torus Foundation
Steven Platts
Chief Executive, Groundswell
Michael Chang
Programme Manager-Planning and Health (Healthy Places), Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care
Dr Lucy Potter
GP, NHIR in Practice Fellow, University of Bristol
Sheni Ravji-Smith
Head of System OD, Leadership & Wellbeing Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership
Simon Bottery
Senior Policy Fellow, Social Care, The King’s Fund
Mark Trewin
Head of Alliance Building, Community Mental Health Unit, Rethink Mental Illness
Jane McDermott
Healthy Ageing Research Group, University of Manchester
Jack Gould
Dementia United, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
Alex Fox
Chief Executive, Mayday Trust
James Pollitt
Assistant Director of Strategic Development Sandwell West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
Jean Templeton
Chief Executive, St Basils
Dr Jennifer Harris
Senior Research Associate, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Contact details
Booking enquiries If you’d like to make a booking enquiry, please email Anna Viralainen at events@kingsfund.org.uk.
If you’d like to make a booking enquiry, please email Anna Viralainen at events@kingsfund.org.uk.
Programme enquiries If you have any queries relating to this event programme please email us at events@kingsfund.org.uk.
If you have any queries relating to this event programme please email us at events@kingsfund.org.uk.
Sponsorship and exhibition enquiries Please email Kieran Cornwell at k.cornwell@kingsfund.org.uk.
Please email Kieran Cornwell at k.cornwell@kingsfund.org.uk.
