Authors' objectives: This study will explore the special services that have been set-up to improve homeless people s experiences of leaving hospital. It will investigate four different types of specialist service. Some services might for example, put patients in touch with a GP who is specially trained to work with homeless people and who will start to work with them while they are still in hospital. Other schemes might employ a housing support worker to make sure homeless people do not return to living on the streets after being in hospital. We want to know what homeless people think of these specialist services and how they help them to tackle the full range of problems they might have. We also want to know if this specialist support prevents homeless people from having to go back into hospital. To see how well these schemes are working and how much they cost we will also study hospital discharge in two hospitals where there is no specialist support for homeless people.

Project Status: Completed

URL for project: http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects/hsdr/1315610

Year Published: 2015

English language abstract: An English language summary is available

Publication Type: Not Assigned

Country: England, United Kingdom

Organisation Name: NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research programme

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