Final Arch 24-25 pages - Flipbook - Page 12
Our Services
Hospital Inreach
/ Pathway Team
Our hospital inreach team - known as
Pathway - grew from four, to nine over
the course of the last year. The team
consists of a GP, housing and advocacy
specialists and nurses who work together
to identify and support anyone who has
been admitted to hospital whilst homeless.
Our co-located housing o昀케cer from the
city council has been with the team since
March 2024 and in the year 2024-25
supported over 110 patients into all types
of accommodation to relieve
their homelessness.
The whole team is made up of a partnership
project between Arch, Sussex Community
Foundation Trust, Brighton and Hove
City Council, and Justlife. The Pathway
team works to support patients to
complete their hospital treatment and
have somewhere safe and suitable to
go to upon discharge. Over the last year
alone, this small team - most of whom are
part-time in their roles - worked together
to support almost 590 patients who
found themselves in the Royal Sussex
County Hospital: both Brighton and Hove
residents and those from out of the area.
Patients are admitted for a wide range
of complex conditions such as vascular
issues (groin abscesses, DVTs) which often
result in amputations, infections of the
bone and heart, uncontrolled diabetes,
overdoses, liver failure, skin infections,
and pneumonia.
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