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Showing posts with label homelessness. Show all posts
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Monday, 16 March 2020
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Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Rough sleepers in homeless hotspots to benefit from NHS mental health outreach
Towns with high rates of homelessness are set for investment in specialist mental health care, as part of NHS services for rough sleepers across the country. Read NHS England news here
Monday, 30 September 2019
Health matters: rough sleeping
A professional resource for local authorities and commissioners on preventing and ending rough sleeping. Click here for link to government resources
Friday, 10 May 2019
Funding released to help rough sleepers living with mental illness
Adults who are sleeping rough and living with mental illness or substance misuse will benefit from £1.9 million funding to improve their access to vital healthcare. Read Government news item here
Monday, 25 March 2019
Funding awarded to 23 projects to help those affected by alcohol
Local authorities across the country will use £6 million funding to increase access to alcohol treatments, with a focus on helping parents and rough sleepers. Read government press release here
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
An uncommon approach: four organisations selected to replicate health and social care interventions
Four organisations have each been awarded £145,000 by the Health Foundation to replicate successful health and care interventions using social franchising and licensing techniques. Social franchising and licensing are methods to replicate and scale interventions that have not yet been used widely in health care in the UK.
The projects are:
Scaling and replicating IRIS through social franchising
Lead organisation: IRISi
IRIS is a successful general practice-based training, support and referral programme that improves the identification and support offered to people with experience of domestic violence and abuse (DVA). One in four women and one in six men will experience DVA during their lifetime, with DVA against women being more frequent and more severe, with long-lasting effects that also have an impact on children. IRIS will be replicated through social franchising so that the programme can be implemented more widely, and more people can be supported. IRISi, a social enterprise set up to house the programme, will support other sites to engage commissioners, and recruit and train staff.
Replicating Pathway’s homeless health hospital team model to towns and cities experiencing significant homelessness
Lead organisation: Pathway
Homeless patients attend emergency departments four times more often than the general population, are admitted eight times more often and stay three times as long. Ten hospitals have implemented Pathway’s integrated care model ensuring that homeless patients admitted to hospital have access to the health care they need and support to recover. Pathway will use social franchising or licensing to replicate the model in places with significant homeless populations that would benefit from adopting it.
Scale up, replication and licensing of the PINCER intervention
Lead organisation: The University of Nottingham
In a recent study, prescribing errors were identified in 5% of prescription items, with one in 550 items containing a severe (potentially life threatening) error. This equates to around 1.8 million serious prescribing errors in English general practices each year. PINCER is a successful pharmacist-led information technology intervention for reducing common medication errors in general practice prescribing, and has been incorporated into national guidelines to support medicines optimisation. PINCER will be replicated in GP surgeries across the country; helping them to protect patients at risk of errors, and reduce medication-related hospital admissions and deaths.
Developing a licensed, social franchising model for regional hubs to roll out effective local multi-professional maternity training
Lead organisation: PROMPT Maternity Foundation
The PRactical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training (PROMPT) programme has been associated with a significant reduction in the number of babies with a low oxygen level at birth and also babies born with a permanent nerve injury following difficulties with their shoulders. Through social franchising and using a regional hub system, it is hoped that this improved implementation model will ensure that PROMPT training may be associated with the same improvements in outcomes across the country.
The new projects are currently subject to contracts being finalised.
The projects are:
Scaling and replicating IRIS through social franchising
Lead organisation: IRISi
IRIS is a successful general practice-based training, support and referral programme that improves the identification and support offered to people with experience of domestic violence and abuse (DVA). One in four women and one in six men will experience DVA during their lifetime, with DVA against women being more frequent and more severe, with long-lasting effects that also have an impact on children. IRIS will be replicated through social franchising so that the programme can be implemented more widely, and more people can be supported. IRISi, a social enterprise set up to house the programme, will support other sites to engage commissioners, and recruit and train staff.
Replicating Pathway’s homeless health hospital team model to towns and cities experiencing significant homelessness
Lead organisation: Pathway
Homeless patients attend emergency departments four times more often than the general population, are admitted eight times more often and stay three times as long. Ten hospitals have implemented Pathway’s integrated care model ensuring that homeless patients admitted to hospital have access to the health care they need and support to recover. Pathway will use social franchising or licensing to replicate the model in places with significant homeless populations that would benefit from adopting it.
Scale up, replication and licensing of the PINCER intervention
Lead organisation: The University of Nottingham
In a recent study, prescribing errors were identified in 5% of prescription items, with one in 550 items containing a severe (potentially life threatening) error. This equates to around 1.8 million serious prescribing errors in English general practices each year. PINCER is a successful pharmacist-led information technology intervention for reducing common medication errors in general practice prescribing, and has been incorporated into national guidelines to support medicines optimisation. PINCER will be replicated in GP surgeries across the country; helping them to protect patients at risk of errors, and reduce medication-related hospital admissions and deaths.
Developing a licensed, social franchising model for regional hubs to roll out effective local multi-professional maternity training
Lead organisation: PROMPT Maternity Foundation
The PRactical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training (PROMPT) programme has been associated with a significant reduction in the number of babies with a low oxygen level at birth and also babies born with a permanent nerve injury following difficulties with their shoulders. Through social franchising and using a regional hub system, it is hoped that this improved implementation model will ensure that PROMPT training may be associated with the same improvements in outcomes across the country.
The new projects are currently subject to contracts being finalised.
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
A second class ending: Exploring the barriers and championing outstanding end of life care for people who are homeless
There is huge variation in the quality of care that people receive at the end of their life. This report and the research it draws on make it clear that by working together, healthcare services and the wider system – such as housing, social services and the charity sector – have a vital role to play in improving the quality and co-ordination of care for homeless people as they reach the end of life.
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