Abstract
This report was produced at the end of a 15-month (April 2023 – June 2024) Burdett Trust for Nursing funded collaborative project which examined ways to improve the nursing and allied health care of people experiencing homelessness with diabetes across the UK. The report is accompanied by a Fairhealth e-learning and Queens Nursing Institute Homeless and Inclusion Health Programme guidance document that were also produced as a result of
the project. The project was conceived in response to the high risks and poor outcomes known to be experienced by many people experiencing homelessness with diabetes and prompted by the innovative work of Specialist Diabetes Nurse Lynne Wooff (nee Bromley) in Bolton. The very active steering group for the project involved inclusion health and specialist diabetes nurses, a Diabetes Consultant, a Specialist Inclusion Health GP, a Dietician, an Optometrist, a Podiatrist, an Occupational Therapist and Experts by Experience.
It is important to note the huge role that Experts by Experience played in shaping the project and focusing our attention not just on access to care issues, but also the need for sensitive, skilful care delivery, that does not cause disengagement.
Thirteen nurses undertook local Quality Improvement projects as part of the wider programme. As a result, a huge amount of knowledge about best practice was shared through the collaborative network. This type of networking has been shown to be a great model for national quality improvement and could be applied to other areas of practice e.g. epilepsy, or respiratory.
The project comprised a literature review, a review of safeguarding adult reviews, two open access on-line workshops, patient interviews, a survey, visits to areas of good practice, the nurse led QI projects, and a final in-person workshop sharing nursing best practice in this area.
the project. The project was conceived in response to the high risks and poor outcomes known to be experienced by many people experiencing homelessness with diabetes and prompted by the innovative work of Specialist Diabetes Nurse Lynne Wooff (nee Bromley) in Bolton. The very active steering group for the project involved inclusion health and specialist diabetes nurses, a Diabetes Consultant, a Specialist Inclusion Health GP, a Dietician, an Optometrist, a Podiatrist, an Occupational Therapist and Experts by Experience.
It is important to note the huge role that Experts by Experience played in shaping the project and focusing our attention not just on access to care issues, but also the need for sensitive, skilful care delivery, that does not cause disengagement.
Thirteen nurses undertook local Quality Improvement projects as part of the wider programme. As a result, a huge amount of knowledge about best practice was shared through the collaborative network. This type of networking has been shown to be a great model for national quality improvement and could be applied to other areas of practice e.g. epilepsy, or respiratory.
The project comprised a literature review, a review of safeguarding adult reviews, two open access on-line workshops, patient interviews, a survey, visits to areas of good practice, the nurse led QI projects, and a final in-person workshop sharing nursing best practice in this area.
| Original language | English |
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| Type | Homelessness with Diabetes |
| Media of output | Report |
| Number of pages | 156 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Nov 2030 |
