BBC News: Energy bills: Patients prescribed heating as part of health trial

[Andy]

"Doctors are prescribing heating to patients with conditions that get worse in the cold as part of a health trial.

The Warm Home Prescription pilot paid to heat the homes of 28 low-income patients to avoid the cost of hospital care if they became more ill.

The trial achieved such good results it is being expanded to 1,150 homes."

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"Academics estimate that cold homes cost NHS England £860m a year and that 10,000 people die every year due a cold home. But that research was completed before the current cost of living crisis took hold.

This first trial achieved such good results, that it's being expanded to 150 households in NHS Gloucestershire's area, plus about 1,000 in Aberdeen and Teesside."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63707689

 

[Trish]

It looks like the provision, as well as being confined at this stage to 3 small areas of the UK, is only for people who have in the past ended up hospital seriously ill and this could be directly attributed to their homes being too cold. The idea is that it's cheaper for the NHS to heat their homes than to have them in hospital.

 

[Peter T]

This is the sort of intervention any one seriously claiming to study a BPS approach to health should be looking at. However I would not be surprised if some proposed CBT as a way of dealing with the cost of living crisis.

 

[Andy]

However I would not be surprised if some proposed CBT as a way of dealing with the cost of living crisis.

Cognitive Heating Therapy? Or LP cultists start claiming that we can learn how to not "du" hypothermia by going on one of their courses.