Homeless and Inclusion Health Nursing projects

In 2018, the QNI announced ten local nurse-led projects to receive a year-long programme of financial and professional support. The projects sought to help people who were experiencing homelessness or who were living in vulnerable or temporary housing, including recent migrants, street homeless, people in custody, and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller populations. All of these groups experience a range of health inequalities which can be severe and life-threatening.

The ten projects were all led by community nurses working in different parts of England. A summary of the projects and the evaluation report are available to download below.

• Drop-in and NHS Health Check Outreach Clinic
  Patsy Dodd, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Charlotte Swann, Wirral Churches Ark Project, Birkenhead.
• Five Ways to Wellbeing
  Claire O’Connell and Sheila Shatford, Primary Care Nurses, Homeless Health Service, Bristol.
• The Gypsy and Traveller Health Bus
  Lisa Gavin, Homeless Health Lead Nurse, Mark Haythorne, Surrey County Council, Redhill, Surrey.
• Health Champions for the Homeless
  Sihle Malapela, Nurse Practitioner; Abdul Rawkib, Commissioning Manager; Sultan Ahmed, Administrator, Newham, London.
• HITPlus
  Kendra Schneller, Serina Aboim, Nurse Practitioners, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Southwark, London.
• Latent TB Screening and Awareness at HMP Birmingham
  Julie McLoughlin, TB Clinical Nurse Specialist; Hanna Kaur, TB Lead Nurse, Kim Bruton, TB Support Worker; University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT.
• Leap Ahead
  Julia Mullaney and Ann Neville, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Darwen Healthcare.
• New Clothing as a Health Intervention for Rough Sleepers and Asylum Seekers
  Paul Coleman, Consultant Nurse Homeless and Refugee Health Services; Jennifer Adu, Specialist Health Visitor, Croydon.
• Self Harm
  Kelly Smith and Rebekah Jeavons, Community Matron Outreach Team, North Somerset.
• Touch Base
  Margaret O’Sullivan, Community Viral Hepatitis Nurse Specialist, Brighton.