Sam Dorney-Smith

Queen’s Nurse, Professional Nurse Advocate and Practice Nurse Specialist Practitioner

Sam is a Queen’s Nurse, Professional Nurse Advocate and Practice Nurse Specialist Practitioner. She has been working directly with people experiencing homelessness and other inclusion health groups since 2002. This included managing a nurse outreach team working in hostels and day centres in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, and setting up the Pathway inpatient services for homeless people in Guys & St Thomas’, King’s College and the South London and Maudsley hospitals. Following this, Sam worked as Senior Nursing Fellow and Nursing Practice Lead for Pathway, supporting clinical practice and quality improvement in the Pathway Partnership Programme nationally. She also worked part time as the Homeless and Inclusion Health Network Lead at the Queen’s Nursing Institute, and part later with Doctors of the World as a Street Outreach Nurse in the City of London. She now works on the IMPROVE project at UCL, focused on improving end-of-life care for people experiencing homelessness. She remains connected to Pathway as a Pathway Fellow and has interests in safeguarding and mental capacity, intermediate and step-down care, diabetes, inclusion health data and inclusion health education. Sam has had several journal articles published, and is the current Secretary of the London Network of Nurses and Midwives Homelessness Group.