Resources, Tools and Guidance
The inclusion health guidance by PHE provides guidance for professionals to on supporting inclusion health groups such as vulnerable migrants within their practice.
MEAM (Making Every Adult Matter)is a coalition between Homeless Link, Clinks, Collective Voice and MIND and was set up to support local areas to develop better coordinated services for people experiencing multiple disadvantage. The collation is funded through the National Lottery and their website provides information about their model, the areas they support and resources to assist local areas to develop their services.
The VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance have two tools:
- Inclusion Health Audit Tool is an online tool designed to help organisations audit their engagement with inclusion health groups.
- An online tool to help Primary Care Networks to assess their engagement with inclusion health groups.
The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health produces Homeless and Inclusion Health Standards for Commissioners and Service Providers, which sets out clear minimum standards for planning, commissioning and providing health care for homeless people and other multiply excluded groups.
Making Every Contact Count(MECC) is an approach to behaviour change that supports the opportunistic delivery health information which enables individuals to engage in conversations about their health. PHE has produced guidance on community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing, particularly relevant when engaging and working with communities to co-produce services and interventions.
Spotlight is a data dissemination platform developed by OHID that collates and presents key statistics related to the public health outcomes of Inclusion health groups across the following themes: access to and utilisation of health care; preventative care; health outcomes; and wider determinants of health.