Asthma (Children)

Supporting households with children diagnosed with asthma

Keep Warm, Keep Well

The NHS in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire is working in partnership with Staffordshire charity Beat the Cold to provide additional support to households with children diagnosed with asthma, whose health could be made worse by living in a cold home.

The One Health and Care record is being used to identify patients with diagnoses who live in households that are likely to benefit from support provided by Beat the Cold.

This project is funded by the Keep Warm, Keep Well community energy scheme, delivered by a partnership between the University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) and Staffordshire Community Energy (SCE).

Your Referral Offer 

As part of the NHS in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire’s work to proactively help some of our patients, with certain health condition diagnoses and/or vulnerability to keep well, you have been identified as likely to benefit from support provided by Beat the Cold.

This is because of your medical condition diagnosis and/or vulnerability and information based on where you live. Information has been provided by the One Health and Care record.

What Help Will I Receive?

A Beat the Cold Energy Adviser will conduct a review and, if necessary, a home visit. The time and date of this meeting will always be agreed with you in advance. All staff are DBS checked and carry identification.

During the call / home visit the advisor will:

  • Identify any benefits that you may be entitled to and refer you to agencies that will support you to access these.
  • Identify ways in which you can safely reduce energy use in your home, while maintaining a safe indoor temperature.
  • Identify any funding that is available to make your home more energy efficient, and support in applying for funding if requested.
  • Help you to resolve issues of fuel debt, or any other problems that you may be having with your energy supply or supplier.
  • Register you as a priority customer with the National Grid.

Your participation in the referral and Beat the Cold intervention will be shared with the NHS in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. This will allow the impact of the scheme to be measured.

An Energy Adviser will conduct a review and, if necessary, a home visit. The time and date of this meeting will always be agreed with you in advance. All staff are DBS checked and carry identification.

You will need to contact louise.stockdale@uhnm.nhs.uk or telephone 01782671503 to confirm that you wish to opt out of the Keep Warm, Keep Well referral.

 

One Health and Care is a confidential digital shared care record, used by different organisations involved in health and social care across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire and the Black Country. It allows doctors, nurses, and other registered health and social care professionals, directly involved in patient care, to view relevant information to provide better care.

They can see information like:

  • Your name, birthday, gender, where you live, phone number and NHS number.
  • The name of your GP practice and GP
  • What medications you take, any allergies you have, your health history, vaccinations you've had and what conditions you've been diagnosed with.
  • Your test results, any times you were referred to a hospital, admitted or discharged and what clinics you've been to.

No. All advice provided by Beat the Cold is free and nothing will be done on your behalf without your informed consent.

How do I take up this offer?

You do not need to do anything.

Beat the Cold will contact you via telephone.

A specialist advisor will provide further information about your Keep Warm, Keep Well referral from The NHS in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. They will answer any questions and arrange the next steps if you wish to take up this FREE service.

Any questions?

If you have any questions, please contact louise.stockdale@uhnm.nhs.uk or telephone 01782671503.

Further information on how we collect and how we use, disclose, transfer and store your information can be found on the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM)  and Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB privacy notices.