Agenda

DAY 1:WEDNESDAY 2ND MARCH (subject to change)

09.00 REGISTRATION, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING
10:00

PLENARY SESSION 1: Health gap and causes

Introduction from the conference chair
Mark Easton, Home Editor, BBC

Welcome from the new Chair of Pathway
Leslie Morphy OBE, Chair of Pathway

Aidan Halligan Keynote Address, Professor Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, and co-author of the international best seller ‘The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better’

Questions and discussion

11:30 REFRESHMENTS, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING
12:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 (delegates should choose to attend one)

SEMINAR STREAM A1 SEMINAR STREAM B1 SEMINAR STREAM C1 SEMINAR STREAM D1

INCLUSION HEALTH: CHANGE AND CHALLENGE

Supporting homeless parents and families
Chair: Jane Cook, Nurse, Integration Lead, Guy's and ST Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Health Visitor for Homeless Families
Maxine Jenkins, Beaumont Leys Health Centre, Leicester

Homeless people with children
Jennifer Cirone, Children and Family Support Advisor, Women’s Strategy, St Mungo’s

RECOVERY AND INCLUSION

The nature of recovery
Chair: Maxine Radcliffe, Nurse Practitioner, Great Chapel Street

Recovery co-constructed
John Conolly, Lead Counsellor, Westminster Homeless Health Counselling Service, Central London Community Health NHS Trust

Roles of Nurses in Recovery
Nicky Tanner, Lead Nurse, Homeless Health Service, Central London Community Healthcare

HOMELESS HEALTH - LESSONS FROM PATHWAY PROJECTS AND PRIMARY CARE

Surviving and thriving as a Pathway team - sharing lessons from experience
Chair: Dr Pippa Medcalf, Lead fellow for health inequalities and inclusion health, Royal College of Physicians

Pathway Presentations co-ordinated by Dr Nigel Hewett OBE, Medical Director, Pathway

Pathway teams will provide updates and share experience from the past 6 years. The model continues to develop and this session will focus on learning from a number of centres of excellence, each one tailored according to local need.  This session will benefit both existing Pathway teams, and those planning to set p or commission one.

POLICY AND PRACTICE UPDATES

Assessing and demonstrating need
Chair: Dr Ligia Teixeira, Head of Research and Evaluation, Crisis

Getting homelessness and exclusion into JSNAs
Helen Mathie, Head of Policy, Homeless Link

Inclusion of Gypsy Traveller needs in JSNAs; a review
Zoe Matthews, Strategic Health Manager and Michelle Gavin, Community Engagement Worker, Friends, Families and Travellers

13:00 LUNCH, EXHIBITIONS AND NETWORKING (including open space events)
14:00

PLENARY SESSION 2: WHAT WORKS?

Chaired by
Mark Easton, Home Editor, BBC

Experts by Experience Panel - Perspectives on Recovery

Chaired by
Ruth Passman, Deputy Director for Equality and Heath Inequalities, NHS England in conversation
with
Gerry Dickson, Case Worker, Groundswell UK, Ousainou Sarr, Thea Fitch, Peer Support Worker, Homelessness Prevention Initiative, CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, Bean Stocks and Iman Rafatmah, Asylum Health Advocate

14:30

International examples of action on Inclusion Health

Perth - emergency medicine, working with Aboriginal communities
Dr Amanda Stafford, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia

Scotland - Rafters, Relationships, Resilience and Response. The Scottish Perspective
Dr Neil Hamlet, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Fife and National public health lead for homelessness in Scotland

London - Working together. The Healthy London Partnership
Peter Kohn, Director, Office of London CCGs

Questions and discussion

15:45 REFRESHMENTS, EXHIBITIONS AND NETWORKING
16:15

PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 (delegates should choose to attend one)

SEMINAR STREAM A2 SEMINAR STREAM B2 SEMINAR STREAM C2 SEMINAR STREAM D2

INCLUSION HEALTH: CHANGE AND CHALLENGE

New approaches to old challenges
Chair: David Parker-Radford, Homeless Health Project Manager, Queen's Nursing Institute

Drug misuse: novel psychoactive substances
David Robertson, Nurse Independent Prescriber, South Camden Drug Services

Population Health Change: Building a National Infection and Inequality Service
Dr Al Story, Clinical Lead, London Find and Treat Service, UCLH 

RECOVERY AND INCLUSION

Local action on housing and health
Chair: Alex Bax, Chief Executive, Pathway

National update and examples of local action on housing
Gill Leng, National Home and Health Lead: Health Equity and Mental Health Division

Routes to roots – Hospital discharge for out-of-borough homeless patients
Riad Akbur, Housing Options Team Manager, London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Pam Orchard, CEO, Providence Row
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HOMELESS HEALTH - LESSONS FROM PATHWAY PROJECTS AND PRIMARY CARE

Raising standards in primary care
Chair: Dr Pippa Medcalf, Lead fellow for health inequalities and inclusion health, Royal College of Physicians

CQC, values and approach, and emerging lessons from ‘outstanding’ primary care services
Professor Ursula Gallagher, Deputy Chief Inspector of General Practice and Integrated Care (London), Care Quality Commission (CQC)

POLICY AND PRACTICE UPDATES

Involving people with lived experience in transforming services
Chair: Jon Sparkes, Chief Executive, Crisis

National standards on service user involvement good practice framework
Alison Faulkner, Survivor Researcher, National Survivor and User Network

EXAMPLES FROM PRACTICE:
Oak Foundation research on Peer Advocacy
Kate Bowgett, Director of Advocacy, Groundswell UK; and Susie Finlayson, Associate, Young Foundation

17:15 PATHWAY ANNUAL RECEPTION and awards for long service. Honorary Faculty Fellowships will be awarded to Jane Gray and Dr Les Goldman. Launch of Annual Report.

DAY 2:THURSDAY 3RD MARCH (subject to change)

08.30 REGISTRATION, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING
09:30

PLENARY SESSION 3: Evidence and data

Chaired by
Mark Easton, Home Editor, BBC

Welcome and recap of key messages from day 1

Babybooms, recessions and long term homelessness
Professor Dennis P Culhane, The Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Policy, SP2, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Homeless and other vulnerable children: an international perspective
Professor Panos Vostanis, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Leicester

End of life: providing integrated palliative care to homeless people
Marg Smeaton, Director of Health Services, Mission Hospice and Wendy Muckle, Executive Director, Ottawa Inner City Health Inc, Canada

Questions and discussion

11:00 REFRESHMENTS, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING
11:30

PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 (delegates should choose to attend one)

SEMINAR STREAM A3 SEMINAR STREAM B3 SEMINAR STREAM C3 SEMINAR STREAM D3

INCLUSION HEALTH: CHANGE AND CHALLENGE

Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities
Chair: Dr Margaret Greenfields, Director: Institute for Diversity Research, Inclusivity, Communities and Society (IDRICS)

The health needs of Gypsies, Travellers and Roma groups
Dr Margaret Greenfields, Professor of Social Policy & Community Engagement, Director: Institute for Diversity Research, Inclusivity, Communities and Society (IDRICS), Faculty of Society & Health, Buckinghamshire New University and Laura Greason, Policy & Information Worker, Roma Support Group

RECOVERY AND INCLUSION

Latest evidence on places and housing for health and inclusion
Chair: John Connolly, Lead Counsellor, Westminster Homeless Health Couselling Service, Central London Community Health NHS Trust

Transatlantic dialogues: on Housing First, PIEs (Psychologically Informed Environments), TIC (Trauma Informed Care), Pretreatment, and system change brokers
Robin Johnson, R&D lead, RJA consultancy and Editorial Board, Housing Care and Support

HOMELESS HEALTH - PATHWAY PROJECTS

Person-centred approaches to meeting health needs
Chair: Dr Pippa Medcalf, Lead fellow for health inequalities and inclusion health, Royal College of Physicians

Involving Experts by Experience in shaping and evaluating services
Stan Burridge, EbE Project Lead, Pathway

End of Life care and homelessness - what do experts by experience and providers of care and support think? Early findings from a collaborative qualitative study
Dr Caroline Shulman, GP, KHP Pathway Team and Briony Hudson, Research Associate, Pathway and Marie Curie Palliative Care Research

POLICY AND PRACTICE UPDATES

Legal and policy updates
Chair: Rick Henderson, Chief Executive, Homeless Link

Update from Crisis including research on impact of Work Programme sanctions
Dr Ligia Teixeira, Head of Research and Evaluation,  Crisis

The Care Act and its implications for practice
Karl Mason, Social Work Lead for the Medicine Division, King’s College Hospital and University of London

12:30 EXTENDED NETWORKING LUNCH AND 'THINK PODS'
14:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 (delegates should choose to attend one)

SEMINAR STREAM A4 SEMINAR STREAM B4 SEMINAR STREAM C4 SEMINAR STREAM D4

INCLUSION HEALTH: CHANGE AND CHALLENGE

Refugees and vulnerable migrants
Facilitated by Dr Angela Burnett

Caring for survivors of torture and organised violence
Dr Angela Burnett, Lead doctor at Freedom from Torture and GP at the Greenhouse Practice Hackney, with Carolina Albuerne, Senior Welfare Rights Advisor, Freedon from Torture and Tracy Ndovi, Survivors Speak OUT

IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF CARE

Staff and volunteers - the importance of taking care of ourselves and each other

Developing Compassion and Relational Intelligence: the importance of taking care of ourselves and each other
Paul Johanson, Psychotherapist and Relational Skills Trainer

Westminster Centre for Resilience on Compassion based approaches - workshop and taster session

HOMELESS HEALTH - PATHWAY PROJECTS

Building the Inclusion Health workforce
Chair: Dr Pippa Medcalf, Lead fellow for health inequalities and inclusion health, Royal College of Physicians

Equipping Medical Students for Primary and Community Care Roles in Challenging Environments
Suzanne Newbrook, Clinical Educator and Difficult and Deprived Areas Programme Manager, Durham University

The Faculty’s approach to developing multi-disciplinary training, research and CPD opportunities
Dr Chris Sargeant, GP Lead Pathway Homeless Team, Brighton and Sussex University Hospital 

POLICY AND PRACTICE UPDATES

Challenges and opportunities for local action in meeting needs
Chair: Rick Henderson, Chief Executive, Homeless Link

Improving healthcare for excluded groups: A whole systems approach
Nicola Glassbrook, Senior Public Health Officer (Health Inequalities), Devon County Council

The shortfall in available supported housing places: research by Sitra funded by National Housing Federation
Mark Goldup, HGO Consultancy and Sitra
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15:00 REFRESHMENTS, EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING
15:30

PLENARY SESSION 4: CLOSING THE GAP / REDUCING INEQUALITIES

Chaired by
Mark Easton, Home Editor, BBC

Closing keynote: What needs to happen - latest evidence and call for action
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director, UCL Institute of Health Equity

Respondents: Public Health leadership - progress and next steps on statutory duty
Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive, Public Health England

Respondents: the NHS and health professionals - declaration of intent
Professor Jane Dacre, President, Royal College of Physicians

16:30 Closing remarks and invitation to join the Faculty-led movement for change
Alex Bax, Chief Executive and Dr Nigel Hewett OBE, Medical Director, Pathway
17:00 CLOSE OF SYMPOSIUM