Hospitals Send 70% of Homeless Back to Streets

Hospitals discharge more than 70 per cent of homeless people straight back onto the streets, according to a new report, Improving Hospital Admission and Discharge for People who are Homeless.  The Department of Health-commissioned research concludes if NHS staff helped ensure homeless people had somewhere to go when they left hospital they would save the NHS money.  Umbrella group Homeless Link and homelessness charity St Mungo’s produced the report from an in-depth study of 85 homeless people, hospitals, local authorities and homelessness agencies.  Download a copy of the report from the Homeless Link website.