Agenda

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DAY 1:WEDNESDAY 1ST MARCH (subject to change)
09.00 REGISTRATION, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING
10:00

PLENARY SESSION 1: Cold comfort: Defending the most excluded as austerity bites

Chaired by
Simon Fanshawe OBE
Broadcaster and co-founder Diversity by Design

Welcome
Dr Nigel Hewett OBE
Medical Director, Pathway

My place, My space
Professor Dame Sue Bailey DBE
Chair, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

Dr Arvind Madan
National Director of Primary Care and Deputy Medical Director, NHS England

11:30 REFRESHMENTS, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING
12:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 (delegates should choose to attend one)

SEMINAR A1: MENTAL HEALTH, ADDICTIONS, CLINICAL SEMINAR B1 SEMINAR C1: HOMELESS HEALTH SEMINAR D1: POLICY AND PRACTICE UPDATES

Chaired by
Dr Pippa Medcalf
Lead fellow for health inequalities and inclusion health, Royal College of Physicians

WOMEN & PREGNANCY

Pregnancy Toolkit for homeless women and their babies, initial implementation and feedback
Jennifer Cirone
Children and Families Support Advisor, St Mungo's

Exploring the Impacts of Supporting Vulnerable Pregnant Women with Doulas
Emma Rogers
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow, Bournemouth University

Chaired by
Dr Vanya Gant
Divisional Clinical Director for Infection, UCLH & Honorary Senior Lecturer, Division of Infection & Immunity, UCL and Trustee, Pathway

EPIDEMIOLOGY: MORTALITY RATES OVER TIME IN BOSTON USA AND SECONDARY CARE IN DUBLIN

Examining the mortality issues of a rough sleeper cohort from Boston MA
Jill Roncarati
Research Fellow, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Premature onset of multi-morbidity in Homelessness
Cliona Ni Cheallaigh
Senior Lecturer in Medical Gerontology and Consultant in General Medicine and Infectious Diseases, St James's Hospital, Dublin

Chaired by
Sam Dorney-Smith
Pathway Nurse Fallow

GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS

Friends, Families and Travellers: A manifesto for collaboration - A system change approach for inclusion Health
Zoe Matthews
Strategic Advisor - Friends, Families & Travellers

Michelle Gavin
Health Co-ordinator, Friends, Families and Travellers

Chaired by
Dr Zana Khan
KHP Pathway Homeless Team

CRISIS HOUSING UPDATE

Homelessness prevention in England: an update on the Homelessness Reduction Bill and costing the effectiveness of preventing homelessness
Dr Francesca Albanese
Research Manager
Alice Ashworth
Senior Policy Officer, Crisis

Crisis - The Charity for Homeless People

13:00 LUNCH, EXHIBITIONS AND NETWORKING (including open space events)
13:30 A special preview screening in Room 3, Sydney MISC
14:00

PLENARY SESSION 2: Local action: cities caring at the margins

Chaired by
Simon Fanshawe OBE
Broadcaster and co-founder of Diversity by Design

GLASGOW
Cities Caring at the Margins
Ann Forsyth
Homeless & Asylum Service Manager, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

ONTARIO
Protests, Prescriptions and Practice Transformation: The evolution of a program of primary care interventions into social illness in Toronto, Canada
Dr Gary Bloch
Co-Chair, Committee on Poverty and Health, Ontario College of Family Physicians

Preview of film "Access and Rights to GP Registration"

15:45 REFRESHMENTS, EXHIBITIONS AND NETWORKING
16:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 (delegates should choose to attend one)

SEMINAR A2 SEMINAR B2 SEMINAR C2 SEMINAR D2

Chaired by
Dr Pippa Medcalf
Lead fellow for health inequalities and inclusion health, Royal College of Physicians

BRAIN INJURY NEW SERVICES; AUTISM NEW SERVICES

Homelessness and brain injury: The invisible disability in an invisible population
Rebecca Forrester
Clinical Psychologist, Lancaster University
Steph Grant
Brain Injury Survivor

The prevalence of autism among long term rough sleepers
Victoria Aseervatham
Rough Sleeping Commissioning Manager, Westminster City Council
Alasdair Churchard
Trainee Clinical Psychologist
Morag Ryder
Trainee Clinical Psychologist

Chaired by
Sam Dorney-Smith
Pathway Nurse Fallow

EXPLANATION OF SERVICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS OF NEW SERVICES

Young people foyers
Amy Hall
Nurse Practitioner, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Community, Health Inclusion Team

The challenges of establishing cost effectiveness within the health inclusion field
Kate Gillespie
Head of Housing and Support Services, YMCA Derbyshire
Dr Michela Tinelli
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, King's College London

Chaired by
Gina Rowlands
Managing Director, Bevan Healthcare

EbE RESEARCH AND PATHWAY EbE HANDBOOK

Critical elements of peer support and the identity development experienced by peer supporters in escaping homelessness
Stephanie Barker
PhD Student & Homed President, University of Southampton

Developing Pathway's EBE Handbook
Stan Burridge
EbE Project Lead, Pathway

VULNERABLE MIGRANTS

Improving the recognition of vulnerable migrants who have experienced abuse including torture and how to respond
Dr Angela Burnett
Lead Doctor and Responsible Officer, Freedom from Torture

Jonathan Kazembe
Advocate, Survivors Speak Out

Tracy Ndovi
Advocate, Survivors Speak Out

17:15-18:30 PATHWAY ANNUAL RECEPTION to include a short film preview "Surviving Homelessness", launch of PATHWAY's Ebe Handbook and the presentation of a Faculty Fellowship.

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DAY 2:THURSDAY 2ND MARCH (subject to change)
09.00-09:30 REFRESHMENTS, NETWORKING & REGISTRATION FOR DAY-TWO-ONLY DELEGATES ONLY
09:30

PLENARY SESSION 3: Hitting the highs and the lows: 30 years of alcohol and drug policy

Chaired by
Simon Fanshawe OBE
Broadcaster and co-founder Diversity by Design

Welcome and recap of key messages from day 1

The Aidan Halligan Memorial Lecture
Professor David Nutt
Edmund J Safra Chair in Neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College, London

Q&A including Experts by Experience panel - perspectives on recovery

11:00 REFRESHMENTS, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING
11:30

PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 (delegates should choose to attend one)

SEMINAR A3 SEMINAR B3: INNOVATION AND SOLUTIONS SEMINAR C3 SEMINAR D3: POLICY AND PRACTICE UPDATES

Chaired by
Dr Pippa Medcalf
Lead fellow for health inequalities and inclusion health, Royal College of Physicians

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE FRAMEWORK

The START Team: providing community mental health care for homeless people in South London
Dr Jenny Drife
Consultant Psychiatrist, START Team, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Enabling Environments: a Framework for partnership between Mental Health Services and Homelessness Agencies?
Dr Peter Cockersell
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Consultant in Psychologically Informed Environments

Sarah Paget
Programme Manager, The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for Quality Improvement

Chaired by
Ligia Teixeira
Head of Research and Evaluation, Crisis

PRIMARY CARE

Screening for latent TB infection using inteferon gamma release assay (IGRA in destitute refugees and asylum seekers
Dr Shazia Munir
General Practitioner in Inclusion/Clinical Lead, Refugee Clinic
Dr Judith Eling
Specialist Trainee in Public Health (ST3), London Borough of Lambeth Public Health Department

Homeless people's access to physiotherapy: an exploratory mixed methods investigation
Jo Dawes
Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, Kingston University & St Georges, University of London

Chaired by
Gina Rowlands
Managing Director, Bevan Healthcare

HOMELESS HEALTH - PATHWAY PROJECTS

End of life care and homelessness - what can we do to make things better?
Dr Caroline Shulman
GP in Homeless and Inclusion Health, Kings Health Partnership; Clinical Research Fellow, Pathway and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University College London
Dr Briony Hudson
Research Associate, Pathway and UCL

Niamh Brophy
Palliative Care Co-ordinator, St Mungo's, Broadway

Chaired by
Athol Hallé
Chief Executive, Groundswell

CRISIS HOUSING UPDATE

Homelessness prevention in England: an update on the Homelessness Reduction Bill and costing the effectiveness of preventing homelessness
Dr Francesca Albanese
Research Manager
Alice Ashworth
Senior Policy Officer, Crisis

Crisis - The Charity for Homeless People

12:30

EXTENDED NETWORKING LUNCH
Delegates should choose to attend one of these after eating, at 13.15

'THINK PODS'
Small roundtable discussions about topics chosen at the symposium

SPECIAL INTEREST SEMINAR 1
The outstanding characteristics of general practices providing services to the vulnerable
Professor Ursula Gallagher
Deputy Chief Inspector, General Practice and Integrated Care (London), Care Quality Commission (CQC)

SPECIAL INTEREST SEMINAR 2
Homelessness & Access to Health Care
Jane Cook
Clinical Lead, London Homeless Health Programme

14:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 (delegates should choose to attend one)

SEMINAR A4 SEMINAR B4: INNOVATION AND SOLUTIONS SEMINAR C4: HOMELESS HEALTH SEMINAR D4: POLICY AND PRACTICE UPDATES

Chaired by
Dr Pippa Medcalf
Lead fellow for health inequalities and inclusion health, Royal College of Physicians

MENTAL HEALTH, ADDICTIONS, CLINICAL
Scotland Community Care

Taking away the chaos - meeting the needs of people who inject drugs in public places in Glasgow
Dr Emily Tweed
Speciality Registrar in Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Is it not time we developed and tested a collaborative pharmacist led model of clinical care for adults who are homeless?
Dr Richard Lowrie
Lead Pharmacist, Research and Development; Clinical Pharmacist, Homeless Health Service, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Pharmacy and Prescribing Support Unit

Chaired by
Ligia Teixeira
Head of Research and Evaluation, Crisis

MULTIPLY-EXCLUDED HOMELESS

Improving access to therapy for ex-street homeless and multiply-excluded clients living in hostel accommodation
Daniel Davies
Homeless Health Team - Counsellor, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Pre-treatment therapy for multiply-excluded homeless people in Central London
John Conolly
Lead Counsellor, Westminster Homeless Health Service
Paul Ashton
Expert by Experience Consultant

Chaired by
Dr Al Story
Clinical Lead, London Find and Treat Service, UCLH

HEPATITIS C

Hepatitis C - How can we cure everyone, including those who are homeless?
Professor Graham Foster
Professor of Hepatology at Queen Mary University of London and the clinical lead for hepatology at Barts Heath

Chaired by
Athol Hallé
Chief Executive, Groundswell

BECOMING STORYTELLERS OF HOMELESS HEALTH PRACTICE

From reflective practice to performance
Dr Maria Fordham
Member of The Queen's Nursing Institute's Homeless Health Advisory Committee

Janet Keauffling MBE
Nurse for Homeless & Vulnerable Adults, Swansea

15:00 REFRESHMENTS, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING
15:30

PLENARY SESSION 4: Love in a time of austerity: solidarity, compassion and care

Chaired by
Leslie Morphy OBE
Chair, Pathway

Closing keynote address

Professor Steve Field CBE
Chief Inspector of General Practice, Care Quality Commission

Professor John Middleton
President, UK Faculty of Public Health

Closing remarks and invitation to join the Faculty-led movement for change
Alex Bax
Chief Executive, Pathway

16:30 CLOSE OF SYMPOSIUM