CYP Now - Clinicians call for local strategies to improve health of excluded groups

Specific plans for helping children and young people of excluded groups such as the homeless, gypsies and travellers, vulnerable migrants and sex workers, should be developed by local health commissioners, new guidelines state.

Standards developed by the Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health, a group including GPs, hospital doctors, nurses and psychiatrists, also recommend that local health commissioners should have someone with specific responsibility for inclusion health.

These nominated leads within clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and NHS England local area teams – should liaise between the organisations as well as the relevant local authority and its public health department.

The standards highlight the fact that gypsies and travellers, sex workers and homeless people all face a significantly increased risk of ill health and premature death.

They describe in detail what hospitals, GPs and other health services should do to improve healthcare for the most vulnerable.

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