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Breathing Easier: Housing and Health Working Together to Tackle Asthma

05/06/2025

Lee Reevell

Poor housing can worsen—or even cause—health conditions. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of asthma, a condition affecting one in eleven children in the UK. But what happens when housing providers and the NHS join forces to change that?

At the Summer Ideas Exchange, Connie Jennings from WDH and Viv Marsh from the NHS shared how they’ve built a pioneering partnership to tackle indoor air quality and reduce asthma triggers in social homes. Their story is one of compassion, collaboration, and quiet revolution.

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