Hospitals discharging homeless people onto the street
More than 70 per cent of homeless people are being discharged from hospital back onto the streets in England, damaging their health and costing the NHS money, new Homeless Link and St. Mungo’s report indicates.
Improving Hospital Admission and Discharge for People who are Homeless
We call on all the NHS to take a step to end homelessness by ensuring everyone has somewhere suitable to go when they leave hospital.
(PRWEB UK) 28 May 2012
The report has found that NHS staff can improve health outcomes for homeless people and save the NHS money by ensuring all patients have somewhere appropriate to stay when they are discharged from hospital.
Paul Burstow, Care Services Minister, acknowledged these findings during a visit to the Pathway homeless team at University College Hospital (UCH) in London today (28 May). The dedicated homelessness team at UCH were named as an example of best practice in the report, which comes from an in-depth study of 85 homeless people, hospitals, local authorities and homelessness agencies.
Soaring toll of elderly starving in their homes
The number of people hospitalised because they are malnourished has soared by 50 per cent in five years
PUBLISHED: 00:49, 28 May 2012 | UPDATED: 00:49, 28 May 2012
Ten patients a week end up in hospital, half of them aged over 60.
Critics say the latest figures show care services are failing to ensure pensioners get the help they need. More councils are increasing fees for meals on wheels or denying people access to the service altogether.
Free courses for unpaid carers
Published on Sunday 27 May 2012 09:09
CARERS can learn how to design cards on a computer at free courses which are being held in June.
A two-week course will take place on Thursday, June 14, and Thursday, June 21, at the old TA building, Elizabeth Street, Corby.
