Health Services and Social Services: Homelessness
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the guidance by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence entitled Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness, published on 16 March 2022, what steps his Department is taking to implement these guidelines in health and social care settings.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
The Department recognises the importance of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guidelines, and is working across the Government and the health system, and with local government, commissioners, and the voluntary sector, to continue to review and support implementation of the guidance Integrated health and social care for people experience homelessness (NG214), both nationally and locally. With the aim to include setting priority areas of focus and identifying and sharing best practice for implementation.
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