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This conference focuses on Healthcare and Homelessness, ensuring effective care and support to people who are homeless. The conference will address how health services can improve the care pathway for people who are homeless from identifying early signs of homelessness and early intervention, ensuring homeless people get the physical and mental health treatment they need, and helping them to secure accommodation and ongoing care before discharge. The conference will also update delegates on the practical implications of the The Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA).
“Despite a high prevalence of physical and mental health conditions, people who are homeless often face practical barriers to healthcare… The cost of living crisis is also extending people’s experiences of homelessness”
Saskia Neibig, senior policy and parliamentary affairs officer Crisis 2022
“Homeless people visit A&E at 60 times the rate of the general population, and they are much more likely to have multiple long-term health conditions”
Royal College of Physicians
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve care and support for homeless people
- Learn from outstanding practice in improving access & Reflect on the lived experience
- Support practitioners to identify early signs of homelessness and develop support for early intervention and prevention
- Improve access and case management
- Ensure homeless people get the health care they need while in hospital, and helping them to secure accommodation before discharge
- Understand the interface between homelessness and complex safeguarding
- Update your knowledge on the implications of the Homelessness Reduction Act
- Understand how you can improve mental health support for homeless people
- Develop your skills in working with people with alcohol and dependence issues
- Identify key strategies for effective information sharing whilst complying with caldicott principles and GDPR
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject
- to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
100% of delegates at our previous conference on this subject would recommend it to a colleague
