Nursing For All: Homeless and Inclusion Health Conference and Learning Day

The event showcased innovative examples of healthcare practice in this field and present current national policy to tackle health inequalities.

The expertise and professionalism of the speakers and delegates enabled the sharing of ideas and innovations in practice. In particular, the concept of the ‘hard to reach’ in society was challenged – it is our NHS services that are hard to access for some people; delegates shared their knowledge around bringing healthcare to people wherever they may be, through outreach work and collaboration between services.

Speakers & Presentations

• Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive, Public Health England
• Lord Victor Adebowale, Co-chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Complex Needs and Dual Diagnosis
• Eamonn O’Moore, National Lead for Health and Justice, Public Health England
  Presentation “Released to the streets: changing the narrative for prisoners’ health”
• Dr Devin Gray, National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow, CQC
  Presentation: “Understanding inequalities in end of life care: homelessness”
• Dr Owen Bowden-Jones, Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry, Club Drug Clinic
• Kevin Jaffray, Peer Educator, Futuremoves
  Presentation “Tackling drug use: innovation and peer approaches”
• Professor Margaret Greenfields, Director, Institute for Diversity Research, Buckinghamshire New University
  Presentation: “Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Healthcare – making the difference”
• Professor Mary Lovegrove OBE, Director, Allied Health Solutions
  Presentation: “Next steps: inclusion health education”
• Georgina Perry, Chair, National Ugly Mugs & Megan Fitzhenry, Expert by Experience, Pathway
  Presentation: “Gaining a national voice and improving the health of sex workers”
• Dr Caroline Shulman, GP Homeless and Inclusion Health, King’s Health Partners & Briony Hudson, Research associate, University College London
  Presentation: “Compassionate end of life care for people who are homeless”
• Lucy Jones, UK Programme Manager, Doctors of the World
  Presentation “Healthcare for migrants & refugees”
• Dorcas Gwata, Clinical Nurse Specialist (Mental Health Nurse of the Year 2015)

Posters

• Initiating routine TB contact screening in an Immigration Removal Centre. Produced by: Sue Silvester & Rachel Rodgers, Lincolnshire Community TB Service
• To reduce A&E attendances of single homeless individuals. Produced by: Jane Morton, Senior Lecturer in Health, Staffordshire University
• Toddler treatment triangle. Produced by: Trudi Law, Specialist Health Visitor (Vulnerable Families), The Royal Wolverhampton Hospital Trust
• When dying at home is not an option: An exploration of the perception of hostel staff regarding the provision of hostel-based palliative care for homeless people, Produced by: Wendy Ann Webb. Clinical Nurse Specialist (Palliative Care), St Richards Hospice
• Establishing the views of homeless individuals on healthcare services through the use of art therapy. Produced by: Stephanie Morris. Student Nurse, Bangor University/ Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board
• Community alcohol detoxification: Protocol and audit. Produced by: Yvonne Gibb QN (presented by Stephen Moore), Luther Street Medical Centre for Homeless and Vulnerably Housed, Oxford Health Foundation Trust
• How women with dependent children who live in temporary accommodation access healthcare services. Produced by: Lorraine Joomun. Professional Head Primary Care, Public Health Lecturer, Cardiff University
• Woman’s health and wellbeing project. Produced by: Inger McGowan & Liz McDonald, Willow Service, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh
• Empowerment and responsibility – making a difference with ‘Take Home Naloxone’. Produced by: Sue McCutcheon, Community Alcohol Nurse for Homeless, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust

You can view the posters and photos from the day here.