1. Please provide the total number of A&E attendances by patients of No Fixed Abode for each of the financial years from 2009/10 to 2019/20.
2. Please provide the total number of hospital admissions by patients of No Fixed Abode for each of the same financial years.
3. Please provide the total annual bed days for these patients of No Fixed Abode (totals should be provided as a sum of all patients over the whole financial year, not broken down by individual patients).
4. Please provide the number of long-stay patients of no fixed abode for the same financial years and the length of each stay. (long stay is defined by the NHS as 21 days or longer).
5. Please provide the number of patients attending or admitted to hospital of No Fixed Abode (for each of the same financial years) categorised or marked with a hepatitis C infection code.
6. Please provide the number of patients attending or admitted to hospital of No Fixed Abode (for each of the same financial years) categorised or marked with a hepatitis B infection code.
7. Please provide the number of patients attending or admitted to hospital of No Fixed Abode (for each of the same financial years) categorised or marked with a self-poisoning or self-harm code.
8. Please provide the number of patients attending or admitted to hospital of No Fixed Abode (for each of the same financial years) categorised or marked with: ‘drug related mental and behavioural disorders, poisoning by drug misuse or admissions where drug related mental and behavioural disorders were a factor. If your trust does not use these NHS England measures – please supply figures for your own drug misuse codes or labels.
9. Please provide the number of patients attending or admitted to hospital of No Fixed Abode (for each of the same financial years) categorised or marked with a latent tuberculosis infection, or other tuberculosis, code.
10. Since October 2018 how many times have referrals to local authorities been made under the Homelessness Reduction Act (2017) for patients identified as experiencing homelessness, or being at risk of homelessness within the next 56 days.
11. Does the trust have formal admission and discharge policies in place to ensure homeless people are identified on admission, and that the discharge of homeless people should be notified to relevant primary health care and homelessness services?
12. Please confirm whether your trust has a Pathway team (GP-led in hospital management of homeless patients).
13. Please confirm whether your trust has an alternative (non-Pathway model) team dedicated to co-ordinating the care/discharge/further needs outside the hospital of homeless patients. Please give the team name and describe its function.
