Making health equity a reality through research, education, policy and practice
Sat 24th September
Irish Street Medicine Symposium
2016
University College Cork
Introduction 9.00 – 9.45
National Perspective –Social Inclusion
Rebecca Loughry (Social Inclusion)
Development and Role of Adult Homeless Integrated Team
Don Coffey (Adult Homeless Integrated Team)
Various Themes 9.45 – 10.55
The Hospital, the Homeless and the Hopeless: New Ways to Help
Amanda Stafford (ED Royal Perth Hospital)
Mortality Amongst the Homeless
Dr. Jo Hanna Ivers,
(Institute of Population Health Trinity College Dublin)
Long-term conditions, health service utilisation and patient engagement
Anton Queen
Self-harm and suicide among homeless people
Ella Arensman
VOT next?
Al Story (Find & Treat, UCLH London)
North Dublin City GP Training – Medicine on the Margin
Session 11.30 – 12.00 Parallel 1
Heplink, Hepcare Europe
Geoff McCombe,
UCD School of Medicine
GP Attitudes to Methadone Prescribing
Blaire Mulvey (South East GP Training Scheme)
HSE Addiction Services
Naloxone Demonstration Project
Tim Bingham
Use of Electronic Health Records for Research in the Primary Care of Homeless People
Peter Mc Court (University of Cambridge)
Developing a Quality and Safety Framework for
Homeless Low Threshold Addiction Treatment Services
Mary Fleming (Clinical Lead, Dublin Simon)
Session 11.30 – 12.00 Parallel 2
Opportunities to use Mobile Phones to Improve Healthcare for Homeless
David Doherty (mHealth)
Sure Steps -Listening with Heart
Derek Dempsey
(Dublin Simon (SSCS))
Perinatal Program
Elaine Conlon (Adult Homeless Integrated Team)
Application of a cross-sectoral integrated care approach to Drug and Alcohol Services and Homeless services – the experience from Southern region.
Joe Kirby (Cork/ Kerry Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force)
UISCE (Union for Improved Services Communications)
John Dermody
Session 12.10 – 13.00 Plenary Mental Health
Addiction, the Homeless Experience Presentation
Child Mental Health / Parenting in Homelessness
Jim Lane / Helen Keeling (AHIT / CAMHS)
Dark End of the Street
Kashia Stubba / Denise Cremin (Cork Simon Community)
Complex Trauma in Homeless Populations - Implications for practice
Sharon Lambert (Dept. of Psychology, UCC)
Cork Multi-Organisational Homeless ACE Study
Graham Gill Emerson (Addiction Counsellor, Cork Simon Community)
Managing Ambivalence to a Self-Harm Service
Dr James Kinahan (Cork University Hospital)
Session 14 – 14.45 Workshops
“Should’ve gone to Specsavers?” - Viewpoints on Working with “Chaotic” Patients in London
Eibhlin Ni Choileain (Camden Health Improvement Practice) and Dr Dana Beale (Pathfinder Practice)
Camden Health Improvement Practice (CHIP)
Looking After The Homeless in General Practice
Eibhlín Collins
Session 15 – 15.45 Parallel 1, Addiction
Supervised Injection Centres - The Sydney Experience
Deirdre Dowdall (HSE Addiction Services)
Novas’ TOPPLE Programme: Peer Overdose Prevention in McGarry House
Sinead Carey (Novas)
Working Together: Providing Integrated Care Mobile Health Unit and Backpack needle exchange
Martina Bergin / Stephanie Lordan (Dublin Simon Community)
Making methadone maintenance therapy accessible to homeless heroin users
Kieran Harkin (Safetynet)
Working Together: Providing Integrated Care Mobile Health Unit and Backpack needle exchange
Martina Bergin / Stephanie Lordan (Dublin Simon Community)
Session 15 – 15.45 Parallel 2, Innovation in Practice
Bru Aimsir: more than just shelter from the cold!
Paul Dunbar Crosscare & Fiona O’Reilly (NDCGP / PHE)
Depaul Health Initiative- Community Integration Nursing
Jess Sears (Depaul)
Session 15.50 –16.30 Plenary, Primary, Secondary
A Peek at Pathway
Eleanor Cape ( NDCGP)
The impact of hospital discharges into homeless services
Fiona Barry (Crosscare)
Hepcare Europe / Seek and Treat
Jack Lambert (Mater, Rotunda and UCD)
