18/12/25
A homelessness team in a hospital has the opportunity to change lives
Pathway’s model uses the opportunity of an emergency hospital admission to change the trajectory of patients facing homelessness, writes Alex Bax, chief executive of Pathway.
In The Health Gap, Professor Sir Michael Marmot challenges health services’ failure to see the bigger picture, writing “why do we keep on treating people and sending them back to the conditions that made them sick in the first place?”
Pathway’s ‘homelessness team in a hospital’ model responds directly to his challenge, using the opportunity of an emergency hospital admission to change the future trajectory of patients facing homelessness.
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