In this homeless health blog, Dr Jenny Drife shares reflections and thought-provoking insights on links between homelessness and loneliness for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 2022. Jenny is a member of the START Community Mental Health Team for people sleeping rough in Southwark, Lambeth and Croydon.
Good Thinking has launched a new resource as part of its ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing” series. Five ways to Wellbeing for Children and Young People has been developed in collaboration with Partnership for Young London, ensuring that that the needs and views of young people are closely integrated into the resource. It provides advice and […]
The bespoke Pan-London Substance Misuse Programme for people who sleep rough, are in hostel accommodation, or at risk of return to the street, offers people currently sleeping rough a potentially life-saving opportunity to access valuable substance misuse treatment and recovery services that have been designed to meet their needs and vulnerabilities. The programme aims to maximise and maintain […]
The London Homeless Mental Health Steering Group was convened in September 2021. The group is chaired by Sharon Spain, Director of Nursing and Quality SWLSTG. The group aims to provide systems leadership in relation to the development and delivery of a mental health action plan and opportunities to optimise the impact of the NHS Long […]
Healthy London Partnership (HLP) secured funding from the Shared Outcomes Fund to help transform a pan-London approach to the out-of-hospital intermediate care, social care and recovery pathway for the homeless population across London. The funding has been used to assemble a project team to scope and deliver this project. Recent work has included: Developing and […]
Dr Jasmin Malik is chairing the London Homeless Health Primary Care Steering Group, which has been established to bring key partners together at the city level, to oversee the citywide primary care workstream. Amongst others, the group will work to: develop primary care commissioning around homelessness services and close the gap in GP registration for […]
Co-Clinical Leads Dr Jasmin Malik and Dr Caroline Shulman joined HLP’s Homeless Health programme in September 2021. Jasmin and Caroline bring valuable skill sets to their joint leadership role having worked with inclusion health groups in primary care across London for a number of years. Working within the homeless health network, their combined knowledge, experience and […]
London Homeless Health Partner newsletter Join our mailing list Sign up to our mailing list to receive key updates and news about our programme, and the latest work from our partners across London. April 2022 Read full edition Clinical leads update Full workstream updates Drug & alcohol Mental health Out-of-hospital care Primary care […]
On Thursday 24 March 2022, Healthy London Partnership’s (HLP) children and young people (CYP) mental health team hosted the ‘Learning Together: Mental Health in Schools Celebration’ event. Over 250 attendees joined the event from a range of organisations including health, education, local authorities, and voluntary and charity sectors. Young people and their families also attended and […]
London has some of the lowest rates of uptake and coverage of the Cervical Screening Programme in the UK and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed areas of health inequalities across the capital where this disparity is higher. A series of Primary Care Network (PCN) improvement projects started in 2019 offer some insight in how to […]