TY - JOUR T1 - Improving the care of inpatients who are homeless: why we need to ask ‘have you got somewhere safe to go when you leave hospital?’ and use the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 ‘duty to refer’ process JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - s11 LP - s12 DO - 10.7861/fhj.7.1.s11 VL - 7 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Esme Ingram AU - Hannah Karet AU - Sarah Simons AU - Gill Taylor AU - Karen Lucas AU - Louise Restrick Y1 - 2020/02/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/Suppl_1/s11.abstract N2 - ‘Homelessness’ is an increasingly important UK healthcare issue. Mean age of death of people who are homeless is 43–47 years and there were 726 homeless deaths in England and Wales in 2018.1,2 People who are homeless have complex health needs reflected in increasing emergency attendances and admissions.1 One in three deaths might have been preventable with timely treatment, yet ‘homelessness’ is often not identified by clinicians as a health issue and is poorly documented in health records.1,3The Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA) 2017,4 which came into place in October 2018, imposes a legal duty on NHS trusts to refer people experiencing / at risk of homelessness to ‘their’ local authority (LA) housing … ER -