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The cost of poor housing to the NHS – Briefing Paper

In 2010 the BRE Trust published the results of a research project which sought to quantify the cost of people living in poor housing in England to the National Health Service. This was possible because of the availability of information from the English Housing Survey on the risk of a home incident occurring and its likely impact on health, measured through the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), combined with information from the NHS on treatment costs. This Briefing Paper updates the BRE models and calculations using 2011 English Housing Survey and 2011 indicative NHS treatment costs. It also widens the definition from ‘poor housing’ to include all ‘sub-standard’ housing.

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Homes and ageing in England Briefing Paper in collaboration with Public Health England

This paper uses English Housing Survey (EHS)data and the research methodology used for the BRE Trust briefing paper on ‘The costs of poor housing to the NHS’ (see above) to provide an overview of the housing conditions of older people, and to estimate the cost to the NHS in England, of the poor housing occupied by the older population. This older population is examined by four key age bands; 55 to 64 years, 65 to 74 years, 75 years and over and 80 years and over.

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