Recovery focused services are a central component to making health services fit for the twenty first century. At the heart of ‘recovery' is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms. Recovery emphasises the importance of ‘hope' in sustaining motivation and supporting expectations of an individually fulfilled life.
Housing is generally recognised to be a central part of an effective recovery pathway. It provides the basis for individuals to recover, receive support and help and in many cases return to work or education. For all of us, housing is a critical part of our well-being; both physical and mental. However, accessing housing and being able to move through a pathway of care, to appropriate accommodation still requires service users to negotiate a range of obstacles.
NMHDU commissioned a series of papers to define the new relationships needed between NHS organisations and providers of housing and housing-related support, to ensure that housing is cemented in the new NHS. This was founded on the belief that improved recovery outcomes can be delivered through housing and housing related services being seen as an essential part of the care pathway. If housing and housing-related support services are given their proper consideration throughout a patient's pathway to recovery then a more therapeutic pathway could be delivered, at lower cost and delivering improved outcomes for the patient. Housing has a significant contribution to make to meeting the current NHS Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) challenge.
The resources, papers and briefings published in this new series include:
Papers and resource tools
Mental Health and Housing:
improving outcomes, integrating lives
Sets the context and describes the innovation already emerging to deliver more integrated approaches across housing, health and social care. It makes the challenge for these pockets of innovative practice to become embedded in the new NHS.
Mental Health and Housing:
Housing on the Pathway to Recovery
A resource tool for health, social care and housing commissioners, who are seeking to deliver a more therapeutic pathway to recovery at lower cost. It describes how housing can be embedded in the Acute Care Pathway and how it meets the QIPP challenge.
Housing and housing
support in mental health and learning disabilities - its role in QIPP (briefing and statistical appendix)
Commissioned in partnership with DHYH / YHIP, this paper and its accompanying statistical appendix, looks at the role of housing and housing support in delivering QIPP. It draws on case studies form the Yorkshire and the Humber Region and provides key statistics for local commissioners in that region. Download
Mental Health and Housing - the evidence base
A description of the available evidence base for further reading and learning.
Briefings
A series of short briefings to accompany the main documents have been prepared for commissioners, providers and users of services to help locate mental health and housing in wider NHS, Social Care and local agendas.
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| Housing and Personalisation | Integrated Care | Localism and Big Society |
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| Payment by Results | QIPP -(aimed at non-health professionals) |