Links to online homeless and inclusion health resources
Below are links to online resources for homeless and inclusion health nurses. If you know of an online source of relevant information, please let us know.
Click here to read our letter to Government regarding Homeless Families
NEW
The QNI working with other nursing organisations has published new Street Outreach Guidelines (January 2021).
Covid-19 Information
- Case studies on COVID-19 vaccinations in Homeless and Inclusion Health
- Health Visiting with Homeless Families During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Journal of Health Visiting, May 2020)
- COVID19 and changes to the Care Act 2014 – A briefing for homelessness providers and practitioners + short video of implications for practice
- Safeguarding Toolkit for adults experiencing homelessness and exclusion – to be used by any practitioner working across homelessness SafeguardingToolkit(DRAFT-PDF)
- Hostels and Temporary Accommodation guidance (Groundswell)
- People who are sleeping rough (Groundswell)
- Guidance for Hostel of Day Centre Providers
- “Londoners sleeping rough will be given vital protection from coronavirus as the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, with support from the Government, secured 300 hotel rooms in which they can self-isolate over the coming weeks.”
- Leaflet about the current situation with asylum support (from Asylum Support Appeal Project aka ASAP)
- Helping services in the homelessness sector respond during the pandemic (Homeless Link)
- Homelessness and Covid-19 FAQs (Homeless Link)
- Specific risks to the homelessness sector from Covid-19 (Homeless Link)
- Weekly webinar: COVID-19 and Homelessness Services (Homeless Link)
- Adult safeguarding and homelessness: a briefing on positive practice
https://www.local.gov.uk/adult-safeguarding-and-homelessness-briefing-positive-practice - Primary Care and Community Respiratory resource pack during covid-19
https://www.pcrs-uk.org/resource/covid-19-shared-resources-healthcare-professionals - The Primary Care Respiratory Society
https://www.pcrs-uk.org/coronavirus - Covid-19 Information Governance advice for health and care professionals
https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/key-information-and-tools/information-governance-guidance/health-care-professionals - Covid-19 Information Governance: how to manage and share information appropriately.
https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/key-information-and-tools/information-governance-guidance - Equality Considerations Arising from Homelessness: Equalities-Homelessness-and-Covid-19-v270420-PUBLISHED
Monitoring the Impact of Covid-19 by Groundswell
General Information
Access to Primary Care
- Gatekeepers: Access to Primary Care for those with Multiple Needs, Ben Wilson and Paul Astley.
Babies
- An unstable start. All Babies Count: Spotlight on Homelessness, Sally Hogg, Alice Haynes, Tessa Baradon and Chris Cuthbert.
Dual Diagnosis
- Co-occurring substance misuse and mental health issues, Public Health England.
End of Life Care
- End of Life Care Resource Pack, St Mungo’s.
- End of Life Choices: Talking about end of life choices with people who are homeless, Dying Matters.
Oral Health
- Smile4Life guide for trainers: Better oral care for homeless people, NHS Health Scotland.
Migrants and Asylum Seekers
- No Recourse to Public Funds Network: A network of local authorities and partner organisations focusing on the statutory duties to migrants with care needs who have no recourse to public funds.
- Medical Justice: Working for the health rights of detainees.
- FEANTSA: Homelessness in a European context.
- The Health Needs of Asylum Seekers, Faculty of Public Health.
Sex workers
Women