Medication and Treatment
Resources
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Tuberculosis
Guidance on tuberculosis including who is at risk, symptoms, treatment, and how homelessness services can support those affected.
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Improving nutrition among people experiencing homelessness
Animations and a research report to help services and staff improve nutrition among people experiencing homelessness and using substances.
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Improving Accident and Emergency (A&E) experiences
This podcast and posters provide homelessness workers with advice on a range of ways to improve clients’ A&E experiences.
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Priority vaccination letter to protect those working with homeless people
Priority vaccination to protect those working with homeless people
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Managing Medication
Supporting people to manage their medication, while promoting individual choice and control.
News
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New data shows TB cases in England rose by 13.6% in 2024
The UKHSA has published new data which shows reported notifications of Tuberculosis (TB) in England increasing by 13.6% in 2024, compared to the previous year.
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People who are currently or have previously injected drugs urged to order a free Hep C testing kit
Homelessness services should support people at risk of acquiring Hep C to order a free test.
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New App to support people who use drugs
This guest blog from Luke O’Neil at Cranstoun describes changes in the UK drug scene and introduces a new mobile app that homelessness services can use to support clients.
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Homeless Health Consortium launched
All of us working in homelessness know that health is a critical issue for those who are precariously housed, or not housed at all. We know that within the homelessness population there are high rates of mental ill-health, high rates of physical health issues like COPD and lives are all too often cut short by decades. Yet still, too many people cannot access the healthcare services they need, when they need them.
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Health and Care Reforms are an Opportunity for Homelessness Organisations
People at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness are far more likely to have significantly and chronically compromised health. The latest health service reforms - including the appointment of inequalities leads and creation of new partnership and governance structures - give members a prime opportunity to build on relationships and influence local health strategies to ensure people experiencing homelessness receive the timely healthcare that they need and deserve.
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Vaccination Frontline
Melissa Kerschen, Senior Comms Manager at Glass Door Homeless Charity, shares their experiences of access to the Covid-19 vaccine at their central London hostels.
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Practice Innovation Forum - improving access to mental health support
Join our latest Innovation Forum focusing on ways to develop better access mental health support for people experiencing homelessness. Hear from speakers innovating in this area and use innovative thinking techniques to generate solutions to the challenges faced within your own local area.
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Exploring the state of the homelessness sector
This webinar will dive into the 2024 findings of our unique annual review of services addressing single homelessness in England and their implications for the sector, and explain how you can use the research to support your work locally to end homelessness.
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Improving nutrition among people experiencing homelessness
Join Homeless Link and Providence Row as we launch research that aims to enhance nutrition and recovery among people experiencing homelessness and share practical actions that homelessness staff can take to improve access to healthy food and nutrition for the people they support.
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Mental Health and homelessness
Mental health issues and homelessness are closely linked, you may regularly support vulnerable individuals experiencing a range of mental health issues. This practical course will give you the skills needed to support individuals experiencing mental health issues.
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Complex Needs, Dual Diagnosis and Personality Disorder
This course will provide an introduction to the these topics and will explore ways of supporting people and maintaining staff wellbeing.
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Understanding Self-Harm
This course will explore how trauma can create self-harming behaviour in a person as a way of managing emotional distress, and look at how to support people away from self-harming to alternative ways of managing their emotions.
Online Members £135pp, Non-Members £175pp