Support and strengthen the financial wellbeing of your patients and staff
We can work with you to play a greater role in addressing health inequalities and reducing and preventing poverty, from equipping your staff to talk about money worries with patients to helping review and develop your policies.
Click on the subheadings below to find out how we can support your work.
Poverty Awareness Training
Our Poverty Awareness Training supports attendees to understand what poverty is, how it affects people and communities, and the best ways to support those in need. The training can be delivered online, in person or it can be delivered as an e-learning package.
The training is relevant to any organisation that wants to better understand poverty and how we support people living in poverty. The content is tailored to the organisation and local area we are delivering it in.
What you’ll learn:
- Defining poverty: What poverty is, and how it affects people and local communities
- Identifying poverty: How we identify those people, households and communities that are in poverty or at risk of falling into poverty
- Working with people in poverty: Best practice for supporting people in poverty effectively, safely and respectfully – this includes hearing from people with lived experience of poverty
- Practical tools: Which practical tools can be used to support people in poverty.
We have previously delivered bespoke Poverty Awareness Training for NHS Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Wokingham Borough Council and Manchester Local Care Organisation.
To find out more about working with us, please contact Tom Waring at thomas@resolvepoverty.org or book a free initial 30-minute meeting.Â
Support with anti-poverty policy
We recognise the impact that poverty is having on the nation’s health. Research from The King’s Fund shows that people living in poverty find it harder to live healthy lives, harder to access NHS services and have a lower life expectancy that the rest of the population. What’s more, poverty leads to additional costs for the NHS, with estimates showing the cost of poverty on additional public spending at around £34 billion.
We have experience of working with a major Integrated Care Board (ICB) in long-term strategic partnership to consider the role of NHS services in tackling poverty. We can support other ICBs, health trusts and providers to explore their role and responsibilities in tackling poverty, including:
- Reviewing existing policies and procedures to understand, evaluate and benchmark work already taking place to support this agenda
- Considering the role of the health service as an employer and ensuring recruitment and employment practices do not exacerbate inequalities arising from socio-economic disadvantage and instead support people living in poverty into good, long-term jobs
- Providing training and guidance on effectively implementation of the socio-economic duty
- Developing a health-focussed anti-poverty strategy which complements other organisational and partner strategies.
To find out more about working with us, please contact Tom Waring at thomas@resolvepoverty.org or book a free initial 30-minute meeting.
We’ve worked with:
We are at the cusp of a big change thanks to the work we've done with Resolve Poverty, and that relates to us considering the voluntary adoption of the socio-economic duty. We understand that if we move forward with it then we will be first integrated care board to do this in the country, and once that has been approved and agreed that gives us really strong foundations to embed tackling poverty throughout our system.