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Transforming health services for homeless people.

Pathway has developed a simple and successful model of enhanced care co-ordination for homeless people admitted to hospital

Pathway Overview

How a hospital visit saved a man from homelessness

How Pathway works with the NHS to try to reduce homelessness.

Pathway model

Palliative Care Toolkit

The Homeless Palliative Care Toolkit is an online resource to help hostel staff identify and support people who are homeless and are facing death.

Palliative Care Toolkit

Partnership Programme

Pathway has developed a Partnership Programme to work with more NHS providers to deliver high quality care to people who need it most.

Partnership Programme
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The Pathway Model

The Pathway model offers a new way to help people who are homeless. We train NHS staff to help patients access the care and support they need to recover and gain better health.

The Charity

Pathway Teams

Homelessness is a significant challenge for health services and the numbers of people who are homeless are increasing nationally. Published research estimates that at least 320,000 people are homeless in Britain.

Hospital Teams

The Faculty

The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health is Pathway’s membership organisation for people involved in health care for excluded groups. Membership is completely inclusive and is open to everyone.

The Faculty
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ahmedhankirThe Wounded Healer@ahmedhankir·
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I worked the night shift as an NHS doctor in Emergency Psychiatry & I was reminded of the following

It cannot be emphasised enough that addressing poverty, unemployment, isolation, discrimination & other psychosocial stressors will help to improve the mental health of our nation

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drsamcoleSam Cole@drsamcole·
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This is a great opportunity for an ANP to work in our surgery for homeless and vulnerably housed. It’s a really special place to work 👇 @DDNMagazine @PathwayUK @DevonCEPN @NHSDevonCCG https://twitter.com/Clocktowersurg/status/1540064410370179077

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Come and work with us! We are looking for an advanced nurse practitioner to join our enthusiastic and committed team . Flexible working pattern, great partnership working and most importantly, our patients are the best 👇 https://beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/B0317-22-8308?mc_cid=d6fa5da83c&mc_eid=0b266884e5

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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) & Homelessness

The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak presents specific risks to people experiencing homelessness. People rough sleeping or living in temporary accommodation are in a high-risk group, many with long term conditions, that mean becoming infected with the virus could have severe consequences.

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A Major Health Challenge

Patients experiencing homelessness and social exclusion can be challenging to treat due to their multiple and complex needs. A person who is homeless is:

34x
more likely to have tuberculosis
50x
more likely to have Hepatitis C
12x
more likely to have epilepsy
6x
more likely to have heart disease
5x
more likely to have a stroke
2.5x
more likely to have asthma

People who are homeless:


attend A&E 6 times as often,


are admitted to hospital 4 times as often,


stay 3 times as long,

than the general population.

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