Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:09 pm on 25 January 2017.
Yesterday, Care and Repair told me about their warm homes on prescription scheme, which uses the local intelligence of health and care professionals to help identify people at risk of health decline due to inadequately heated homes, and then they intervene to help with more efficient heating. If it works, it will reduce the number of people needing hospital care, which will include elective care for certain chronic conditions, and, of course, reduce the number of people experiencing delayed transfers of care as well. Now, the scheme’s funded from Welsh Government’s housing budget and is a good example of a non-health budget being used to solve a health problem. If it’s successful, will it continue to be funded from the health budget or will this sort of spirit of cross-portfolio budgeting be tested over much if this pilot is extended beyond the trial period that it’s now being used for?