Posts Tagged homeless health

The NHS is supposed to be a universal healthcare system.  There is one group however – one of the most vulnerable in society – who get a particularly raw deal: the homeless.  The NHS funds services, not individuals.  With no fixed abode, the homeless far too often  fall through the net.  As a discussion hosted by Civitas a couple of weeks ago showed, the homeless get  caught in a catch-22 situation where, to quote Charles Fraser, CEO of St Mungo’s, ‘homeless people avoid health services and health services avoid them’.
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