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London Network of Nurses and Midwives

Homelessness Group

Friday 17th April 2015St. Martin-in-the-Fields

‘Austerity and Access’

CO-PRODUCED WITH:

SPONSORED BY:

SUPPORTED BY:

ENTERTAINMENT BY:

Special thanks

SPEAKERS, PANEL MEMBERS,WORKSHOP LEADERS

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

LNNM – the last year• Screen grab from website – add from home max

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

LNNM future

• Bi-monthly meetings• Continue to influence policy• Next year’s conference?• Funding ? to run network ? Future

Action Learning sets• Input to the Program Board guiding

commissioning review