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Tackling the health impacts of cold homes:
Why the draft NICE guidance matters
Simon Roberts
4 July 2014
CAN Conference, Bristol
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www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/GID-PHG70/Consultation
Key draft recommendations
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Focus on role of cold homes in exacerbating local health
problems and reflect in resulting strategies
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Use health data and housing data to identify people at
risk and trigger appropriate interventions
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Commission services to tackle cold homes (and access
support from others) and participate in effective referral
networks
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Don’t discharge vulnerable from hospital to a cold home
www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/GID-PHG70/Consultation
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