Advice and guidance

This section provides a range of resources to help health professionals support their patients experiencing homelessness. It also provides information about local homeless health plans and partnership meetings.

The North West London Primary Care Resource Sheets list both general and borough-specific resources that are of use to professionals supporting people experiencing homelessness. To request additions, updates or corrections, please contact claire.wilson49@nhs.net.

Brent

Ealing 

Harrow 

Hillingdon

Hammersmith & Fulham

Kensington & Chelsea

Hounslow

Westminster

The StreetLink website can be used by anyone in England and Wales to send an alert about someone who is sleeping rough, or preparing to sleep rough. Alerts are sent to outreach teams, who go out mostly at night to connect people sleeping rough to local support services

Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) is an emergency humanitarian response to severe weather conditions, the primary aim of which is to preserve life. SWEP is triggered on a pan London basis when a temperature of 0°C is forecast on any one night.

The response primarily takes the form of shelter or short-term accommodation for those who would otherwise be sleeping rough. It is coordinated at a local authority level. If unsure how to proceed, submit a referral to StreetLink (see the StreetLink subsection on this page).”

Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (cold weather) Guidance for A&E and Hospital Discharge.

Accessibility tools

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