Pathway

Fabulous to see @inclusiongp.bsky.social 💚

📢 FINAL CALL for Pathways from Homelessness on 18 & 19 March!

We are close to in-person capacity, so don’t delay in booking.
You can also attend online, giving full access to the conference live stream and to the on demand video box set after the event 👇
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➡️ Professor Jane Currie, University of New South Wales, Australia

➡️ Professor David Buck, University of Houston, USA

➡️ Steven Rolfe, Arthur Labatt School of Nursing, Western University, Canada

Find out about our conference programme and book your place 👇
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Our 2026 Faculty for Homeless & Inclusion Health International Conference starts is fast approaching.

Join us to hear from our international speakers:

➡️ @mkushel.bsky.social, University of California, USA

➡️ Dr Michale Anderson & Kristin Ingraham, Inner City Health Associates, Canada

Also 👇

𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐁𝐄: Non-Executive Director, NHS England

@durkadougall.bsky.social 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐥: Chief Executive, Centre for Population Health

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐱 𝐌𝐁𝐄: Medical Director NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB

Find out more and book your place 👇
tinyurl.com/4t3t3cjv

It's less than 4 weeks until our Pathways from Homelessness conference taking place over 18 and 19 March.

Join us to hear from:

𝐃𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫: National Medical Director, NSHE

𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐁𝐄: Chief Executive, Crisis

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐁𝐄: Past Chair, RCGP; Pathway Chair

and, also 👇

@pathwayuk.bsky.social is delighted that Prof Kamila Hawthorne MBE and Dr Crystal Oldman CBE have been appointed to its Board, Kamila as Chair.

They bring many years' experience of national leadership and front-line clinical practice in deprived communities.

Read more 👇
tinyurl.com/2s4druvn

Excellent to see Peter Blackburn’s article in the BMA's The Doctor on the hospital homelessness teams who are part of pathwayuk.bsky.social's Partnership Programme.

Their work is both life changing for people experiencing homelessness and a vital cost saver for the NHS 👇

tinyurl.com/mrbsk4r8

📢 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.

@pathwayuk.bsky.social's next Masterclass is on 26 February, 3.30pm to 5pm.

Find out more and book your place here 👇
tinyurl.com/mr3wph5t

Thanks for sharing @inclusiongp.bsky.social

📢 The full agenda is now live for our 15th Annual International Homelessness and Inclusion Health Conference – Pathways from Homelessness 2026, taking place Wednesday 18 – Thursday 19 March 2026.

View the full programme and book your place here 👇
tinyurl.com/5a6bvkp6

Thanks for sharing @inclusiongp.bsky.social

How can local authorities work with the NHS to get the most out of the health commitments in the Government's National Plan for Ending Homelessness?

Read @deeoconnell.bsky.social’s recent piece in The Municipal Journal 👇
tinyurl.com/36zsjhza

In the Health Service Journal this week, Alex Bax, @pathwayuk.bsky.social's CEO, assesses whether the Government is on track to meet its manifesto pledge following the recent launch of the “National Plan to End Homelessness”.

Read the full article here 👇
tinyurl.com/yd35fb4b

📢 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢: 𝙐𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙏𝙎𝘿 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙭 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙪𝙢𝙖 𝙞𝙣 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.

@pathwayuk.bsky.social's first online Masterclass of 2026 is on 27 January, 3.30pm to 5pm.

Find out more and book here 👇
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The commitments require further concrete action to bring real change, and there are also reasons for caution. Housing is the ultimate foundation to good health and the strategy overlooks key proven measures that would help end homelessness.

Read more👇
tinyurl.com/24auukpr

We welcome ambitions set out in the Plan:

✅Improving existing funding streams to support specialist intermediate care.

✅Embedding housing officers in hospital discharge teams.

✅Improving access to care and challenging the stigma people facing homelessness experience.

Today, the Government has published its long-awaited National Plan to End Homelessness.

We’re delighted to see a firm commitment to ending the unacceptable practice of discharging people from hospital to the street. @pathwayuk.bsky.social has long called for this vital and overdue change.

Doctors are the experts on health, and what helps and harms our health. It’s therefore so powerful to see them standing up for the dangers faced by people experiencing homelessness and calling for action in the Government’s forthcoming homelessness strategy.

We support this call.

@pathwayuk.bsky.social has called for this change for many years and are very pleased to have contributed to the thinking.

See our paper for next steps on implentation 👇
tinyurl.com/56xepe6y

Many thanks to @nhsengland.bsky.social's health inequalities team, to Mary Hill & Cicely Ryder-Belson.

Recording of patient housing status drives:

🤕 Better understanding of the needs of patients facing homelessness
🏥 Better commissioning of services to meet people’s needs
🔦 Greater accountability for services and outcomes

We warmly welcome the news that, for the first time, housing status has been included in @nhsengland.bsky.social's Statement of Information on Health Inequalities, setting out what information Trusts and Integrated Care Boards should collect to meet their equalities duties.

@suzannahyoung.bsky.social thansk for sharing

✅ Saved the NHS £9m+ per year in avoided costs
✅ Freed up 13,000+ bed days for other patients by reducing readmissions

@pathwayuk.bsky.social’s hospital homelessness teams must be part of the solution for the cash-strapped NHS, and a central plank of the Government’s drive to end homelessness.

In 2024/25, the specialist homelessness teams:

✅ Helped 4,778 patients experiencing homelessness, a 41% increase on 23/24
✅ Reduced returns to rough sleeping by 62% and to sofa surfing by 33%
✅ Registered 70% of patients with no prior access to primary care with accessible GPs

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Out today, @pathwayuk.bsky.social's annual report shines a light on the huge achievements of the NHS hospital homelessness teams supported through our Pathway Partnership Programme (PPP) 👇
tinyurl.com/j2wes7xp

📢 Understanding Vulnerability in a Housing Context,
@pathwayuk.bsky.social's final online Masterclass of 2025 is on Thursday 20 November from 3.30pm to 5pm.

Join us to hear from expert speaker Kristine Ross and to share learning.

Find out more & book here👇
tinyurl.com/b3hwav74

The team’s success highlights the critical role the health system can play in preventing and ending homelessness - making a transformative difference in the lives of people facing homelessness.

Read more about the Pathway Partnership Programme
here👇
tinyurl.com/8jukd8aw

With funding re-established, we’re thrilled that HIT’s life changing work is continuing.

Prioritising safe hospital discharge, the multidisciplinary team's highly skilled, person-centred approach has reduced the number of patients returning to rough sleeping by 60%.

Last week we had an excellent 2 days delivering inclusion health induction training for the brilliant St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's Homelessness Inclusion Team (HIT), one of the specialist homelessness hospital teams we support on our Pathway Partnership Programme.