Healthy Homes Dorset 2021

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, Dorset Council, and Public Health Dorset have tasked and funded Dorset Council to design and deliver the Healthy Homes Dorset Programme. Healthy Homes Dorset 2021 aims to improve health and wellbeing by reducing illness and death caused and exacerbated by cold homes. This programme is a key component in the local authorities’ work to improve housing stock and enable people to live in their own homes for longer while mitigating fuel poverty, reducing Carbon emissions and improving air quality. HHD2 aims to reduce levels of avoidable illness and early death caused or exacerbated by living in a cold home, and the related avoidable demand for health and social care services by providing advice and improvements to home insulation and heating as outlined in NICE Quality Statement 3 of NICE Quality Standard 117 (Preventing Excess Winter Deaths and Illness Associated with Cold Homes).