Social housing tenants in Liverpool will be the first in the UK to have their living conditions integrated with NHS records.

Housing association Prima Group has written to over 220 tenants to take part in the Healthy@Home trial with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust that will also help tackle health inequalities. 

Wes Baker, director of strategic analytics, economics and population health management at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, said: ‘Connecting housing data with health records is exactly the kind of joined up thinking the NHS needs more of.

‘Understanding someone's living conditions alongside their clinical picture allows earlier, more effective intervention. This pilot demonstrates what truly integrated data looks like in practice.'

The long-term aim of Healthy@Home is to develop a framework for ongoing collaboration between social housing associations and the NHS so it can be rolled out nationally.

The project is being part-funded by registered charity, Fusion21 Foundation and is also supported by NHS Cheshire and Merseyside and local GPs from Picton Primary Care Network.