What Can General Practice Do to Improve the Health of Our Homeless Patients?

Yasmin has been practicing as a GP for 28 years. She currently does one clinical session a week in a Practice in Birmingham. She started her career in safeguarding in 2014 as a “Safeguarding Champion” for Birmingham Cross City CCG. She has been a named GP For NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB Safeguarding team since 2018 and does 5.5 sessions a week. As part of this role, she has responsibility for the Learning and Development programme in Birmingham and Solihull and has therefore been very active in providing training for all General Practice Staff- clinical and non- clinical. She designs bespoke presentations depending on the audience and their safeguarding learning requirements. She is also a Clinical Educator for the IRISi Domestic abuse programme, which is a collaboration between Primary Care and local Domestic Abuse services across England, and a trainer for Prevent (radicalisation). She understands the learning needs of General Practice Staff by participating in Domestic Homicide Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Safeguarding Adult Reviews and keeping up to date with RCGP, GMC and CQC expectations of General Practice in safeguarding.