Has your heating on prescription project received funding? Does your project provide funding to credit energy bills for the most vulnerable in your community? Use our free and simple to follow guidance document, partnership branding and patient communication templates to help you identify, onboard and tailor energy bill support to vulnerable households.

Our guidance document is a starting point for organisations beginning to design a Warm Home Prescription service. It can be used by organisations, regardless of previous experience in health or energy. Further support is also available to help you design and test your service, and provide your residents with warm homes and improvements in their health and wellbeing.

Warm Home Prescription (WHP)
An innovative service invented by Energy Systems Catapult, helping people who struggle to afford energy and have severe health conditions made worse by the cold. Our guidance snd support can help you deliver your funded Warm Home Prescription project effectively, and with impact.

The WHP service has been tried and tested with almost 1,000 households across England and Scotland and successfully helped people with cold sensitive health conditions to stay warm and well at home – and out of hospital. This trialled and refined service is now providing you with the resources to help you successfully deliver yours.

Millions of people in the UK have health conditions – such as respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses – that are made worse by living in a cold home. Over 10,000 people die each year in England and Wales as a result.

Interested in more knowledge and insights for your project? 

Join our Community of Practice and collaborate with other health and energy partners working hard to provide warm homes to those with health conditions made worse by the cold.