Better homes, better neighbourhoods, better health
The GM Tripartite Agreement is a unique collaboration between Greater Manchester Combined Authority, NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care and Greater Manchester Housing Provider (GMHP) partnership to deliver integrated solutions to challenges centred around housing and health.
As part of our Greater Manchester Strategy, we have committed to creating a healthy, safe, warm space for everyone to call home. The Agreement emphasises the importance of good quality homes in the right places as the building blocks of health creation and wellbeing that underpin people’s ability to build a better quality of life.
First launched in March 2021, the Agreement is now in its second iteration, reflecting the strong and continued commitment across the three organisations to take joint action on building healthy homes and communities, contributing to the creation of a thriving city region where everyone can live a good life.
Collaborating to deliver better outcomes
The three partners are committed to working together to improve the quality and suitability of living environments and ensure we have enough of the right, affordable homes in the right places to keep our residents healthy and prevent, delay or reduce demand on wider public services.
The new Tripartite Agreement brings together joint action that seeks to create the conditions for good health. It describes how, practically, we will align our expertise, resources, influence and capacity to deliver against the ambitions set out in the Greater Manchester Strategy to create healthy, safe and warm homes for everyone.
Tackling the housing and homelessness crisis, being able to live in a secure and stable home and have access to support for health or care needs, are all fundamental to being able to live a healthy life. This new agreement will build on the unique involvement we have in Greater Manchester between our health and social care services, our housing providers and local government. We have proved we can deliver and now we will go further and faster in improving health, housing and quality of life.
Our joint outcomes
By continuing to align our collective resources, expertise and capability we will work together to support delivery of ‘A Healthy Home for All’. We will contribute to this through:
- Better collaboration in neighbourhoods across health, housing, care and VCSFE sector through Live Well
- More homes that support good health
- More social rented homes built in the right places
- Less reliance on temporary and crisis accommodation
- More supported housing options for people who need them
- Fewer people in hospital when they don’t need to be because they are supported to live independently at home.
These outcomes translate to specific outputs that support delivery of the Greater Manchester Strategy through the six workstreams that capture our joint action.
Our delivery workstreams
Delivery against our joint outcomes is through a series of themed workstreams that capture the practical commitment from each organisation to come together around delivery of jointly agreed priorities.
Our programmes are focused on taking action, recognising that we are able to achieve much more through our collaborative advantage. The workstreams, actions and deliverables in the Tripartite Agreement are integrated into Housing First, cross cutting into Live Well, and driving forward the pledges set out in the Greater Manchester Strategy.
- An ambition to deliver 75,000 new homes
- Supported Housing
- Housing quality and retrofit
- Home improvements and adaptations
- Homelessness and Inclusion Health
- Support to ‘Live Well’ at home
Watch the video below to hear Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, talk about the importance of the Tripartite Agreement and joined up thinking on housing and health.