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London Network of Nurses and Midwives
Homelessness Group
Friday 17th April 2015St. Martin-in-the-Fields
‘Austerity and Access’
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ENTERTAINMENT BY:
Housekeeping• Timing• Sign in to workshops• Panel Questions – stick your dots on BEFORE
lunch• Poster competition• Quiz (answers by afternoon tea
in box at reception )• Feedback forms • Schedule Changes
Who are the LNNM Homelessness group?
• Chair currently - Maxine Radcliffe• Vice Chair – Paul Coleman• Treasurer - Rosa Ungpakorn
London Health Commission
Recommendation 31:
Health and care commissioners should develop a pan-London, multi-agency approach to healthcare for the homeless and rough sleepers, with dedicated integrated care teams, and commissioned across the capital by a single lead commissioner
Focus groups • The Homeless Health Services Programme
Board is one of the 13 transformation programmes that feature in the agreed set of programmes for 15/16 by all 32 CCGs and NHS England – the London Health Partnership
• Focus groups will help inform the agenda• Pack colours and rooms
• 64% increase in London rough sleeping (2010/2011 – 2013/2014)
• 54% of rough sleepers not UK born (2013/2014)
• 90% projects report clients being benefit sanctioned (2015)
• 18% reduction in London hostel bed spaces (2012 – 2014)
• 54% attendees to a specialist GP clinic turned away by mainstream GPs, often several times. Testing showed 18% had a serious infectious disease. (2012)
• 1 in 5 Project London attendees feared arrest if they accessed healthcare. 1 in 4 had been denied access. (2013)
• 28.2% of the general population say it is not easy to get through to their GP (2014)
Austerity and Access
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