Dr Chris Sargeant is a GP and medical director at Pathway, a charity set up following a tragic incident where a patient experiencing homelessness at UCLH was discharged back onto the streets and died a short time later.
Chris works in one of the Pathway teams in the main Brighton hospital, the Royal Sussex County – which see 450 people who are homeless admitted every year.
Pathway teams support patients who are homeless during their admission, work with them and hospital staff to agree appropriate treatment options and help to ensure a patient can stay in hospital to complete their treatment (20% of those experiencing homelessness discharge themselves from hospital compared to 3% of the general population).
Read the full story in the latest edition of GP Frontline, link in bio 🔗
[Image description: Dr Chris Sargeant talking into a microphone.]
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