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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.
Priority vaccination letter to protect those working with homeless people

Priority vaccination to protect those working with homeless people
Managing Medication

Supporting people to manage their medication, while promoting individual choice and control.

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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.
01 February 2024
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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.
15 September 2023
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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.
21 April 2022
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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.
21 April 2022
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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.
21 April 2022
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Vaccinating frontline workers and clients

Regular readers of Homeless Link blogs will know that earlier this month, we wrote to the Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment to ask that working with people who have no home is treated as a priority occupation for vaccination, as a matter for urgency. We also asked members to write to their MPs to raise the same issue and many have taken immediate action, including asking their workforce to write to their own MPs.
19 April 2022