Guidance, evidence, reports and audit tools

Inclusion Health Tool for Primary Care Networks

This Inclusion Health Tool will help your Primary Care Network to assess it’s engagement with Inclusion Health groups. These are the groups identified as experiencing the worst health inequalities in the UK.

Inclusion Health Audit Tool

The Inclusion Health Audit Tool finds out how your organisation measures up and what you can do to improve.

Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness

This guideline covers providing integrated health and social care services for people experiencing homelessness. It aims to improve access to and engagement with health and social care, and ensure care is coordinated across different services.

Inclusion health - applying All Our Health

Inclusion health: applying All Our Health is guidance to help health professionals prevent ill health and promote wellbeing of individuals in inclusion health groups.

The MEAM Approach

The MEAM Approach helps local areas design and deliver better coordinated services for people experiencing multiple disadvantage.

It’s currently being used by partnerships of statutory and voluntary agencies in 50 local areas across England.

The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health Service Standards for Commissioners and Service Providers

The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health Service Standards for Commissioners and Service Providers document is to set clear minimum standards for -

  • planning
  • commissioning
  • providing

healthcare for homeless people and other multiply excluded groups. The Faculty challenges all parties to work to these standards and to work to revise and improve them.

A public health approach to sex work across Yorkshire and Humber

A public health approach to sex work across Yorkshire and Humber. Inclusion health groups experience some of the worst health inequalities because they are often socially excluded and experience multiple overlapping risk factors for poor health.

Sex workers might intersect into other inclusion health groups such as those experiencing homelessness, exploitation and drug and alcohol dependence.

Dismantling Disadvantage

The report by Agenda Alliance and Changing Lives, dismantling disadvantage recognises that across the country, women at the sharpest edge of inequality are being systematically failed by the services that should be supporting them. The research search conducted aimed to better understand the lives and needs of disadvantaged women in the North East.

Spotlight

Spotlight is a data dissemination platform that collates and presents key statistics related to the public health outcomes of inclusion health groups.

Commissioning Inclusive Services

Commissioning Inclusive Services: Practical steps towards inclusive -

  • Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
  • Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies
  • and commissioning

for -

  • Gypsies, Travellers and Roma
  • homeless people
  • sex workers
  • vulnerable migrants

Friends, Families and Travellers

Policy and Publication on the Friends, Families and Travellers site will help you to search for policy, publications and information on issues affecting Gypsies and Travellers, including resources to improve knowledge and understanding around the needs and experiences of these communities within the health and care system, around areas such as -

  • infant feeding
  • mental health inequalities
  • cancer
  • primary care

Pathway

A collection of -

  • reports
  • research
  • standards
  • toolkits
  • and other resources

to help with understanding of the links between homelessness, exclusion and health on the Pathway website.

Knowledge Hub

The Knowledge Hub contains a variety of resources, practice guidance, webinar recordings, podcasts, policy briefings and research papers on a wide variety of topics.