Useful Links
More on palliative care
Pathway – Palliative Care resources
Pathway share a range of learning resources and research findings about homelessness and palliative care on their website.
Marie Curie – Palliative Care resources
These pages profile some regional best practice approaches to improving palliative care for people experiencing homelessness in the UK.
PEACH – Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless
PEACH is a supportive palliative service fostered by Inner City Health Associates (ICHA) in Toronto, Canada. They have produced many reports and guidance.
Support for people experiencing homelessness
Use this database to search for homelessness services in your area.
‘My Right to Healthcare’ NHS Cards
Registering with a GP can be very difficult when you are homeless. These cards can be kept in a pocket and shown when registering for healthcare.
StreetLink exists to help end rough sleeping by enabling members of the public to connect people sleeping rough with the local services that can support them.
Inclusion health education modules
Fairhealth is a charity that offers free courses, elearning, blogs, and a podcast. All designed to enable healthcare professionals to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to work in areas of deprivation, with marginalised patients, and to reduce inequalities
Aneemo provides some free, and some low-cost, digital training for voluntary, health, and social care staff working with people experiencing homelessness, mental health challenges, substance use, and involvement in the criminal justice system.
Public Health England’s All Our Health framework is a call to action to all health and care professionals to embed prevention within their day to day practice. Through educational materials, tools and resources, All Our Health helps professionals make an even greater impact in preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing. One of the modules focuses on homelessness.
Migrant health
The No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) Network is a national network safeguarding the welfare of destitute families, adults and care leavers who are unable to access benefits and support services due to their immigration status. They support councils to prevent homelessness, alleviate child poverty, promote integration within local communities, and to operate cost-efficient services.
Doctors of the World – Resources and Training
Includes guidance for clinicians on recognising ‘urgent’ and ‘immediately necessary’ conditions, advice on working with refugees and asylum seekers and the Safe Surgeries toolkit.
Professional support organisations
Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health
The Faculty is an inclusive membership organisation for people involved in health care for excluded groups. Membership is open to a wide range of health and social care professionals, as well as researchers and people with lived experience of exclusion.
Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing Homeless and Inclusion Health Network
The Homeless and Inclusion Health Network is a free national network of nurses and allied professionals aimed at improving the health of marginalised groups, particularly people experiencing homelessness, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, vulnerable migrants, Boater and Showman communities, people in contact with the criminal justice system and sex workers.
London Network of Nurses and Midwives Homelessness Group
The London Network of Nurses and Midwives (LNNM) is a charity which works to support nurses and allied professionals working in homelessness and inclusion health mainly in London, to promote best practice and to develop inclusion health as a distinct, recognised speciality.
The Frontline Network supports workers from the public, statutory and voluntary sectors working on the frontline with those experiencing homelessness.