Int ID | Usual pattern of housing+ | Place of birth | Criminal justice | Drug use | OST | Alcohol | HIV+ | Other self reported health conditions | Routes into care |
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ID01 | Hostel | UK | ✓ | PWID | ✓ | ✓ | Epilepsy | Unclear due to several attempts to treat over a period of time. Not hospitalised. | |
ID02 | NFA | UK | ✓ | ✓ | Epilepsy | GP called ambulance (A & E) | |||
ID03 | Shared house (temporary) | Ethiopia | Awaiting referral via GP but self referred to A & E and hospitalised | ||||||
ID04 | BedsitHostel | Nigeria | ✓ | PWUD | ✓ | Diabetes | Blacked out, taken to hospital by ambulance, admitted to hospital through A & E | ||
ID05 | NFA | UK | PWID | ✓ | MXU & hospitalised | ||||
ID06 | NFA | UK | ✓ | PWID | ✓ | ✓ | Collapsed outside hospital, self referred to A & E & hospitalised initially in a psychiatric unit because of drug use | ||
ID07 | B & B | Somalia | Hypertension | GP referred patient to TB clinic | |||||
Staying with relatives in their house | |||||||||
Diabetes | |||||||||
Ulcer | |||||||||
ID08 | Home ownership but now unable to pay mortgage due to illness and no recourse to public funds due to immigration status | Nigeria | ✓ | Drug induced diabetes | Friend called ambulance, taken to A & E and admitted to hospital | ||||
ID09 | NFA | UK | ✓ | PWID | ✓ | Hepatitis C | Partner called ambulance: hospitalised, discharged, readmitted to hospital & discharged. Later re-admitted when visited GP & told TB clinic trying to contact him | ||
ID10 | NFA | Ethiopia | GP made referral to neurologist & patient was hospitalised | ||||||
Hostel | |||||||||
ID11 | NFA, sometimes stays at a friend’s house | UK | ✓ | Stomach ulcers | GP prescribed a course of general antibiotics & later sent patient to hospital | ||||
ID12 | B & B | Somalia | GP referral to hospital with letter via TB clinic | ||||||
ID13 | NFA | Ireland | ✓ | Arthritis | Taken to hospital by ambulance, & admitted via A & E | ||||
ID14 | Hostel | UK | ✓ | PWID | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Doctor at DDU. Client says he went to four different hospitals but tests came back negative | |
ID15 | Temporary bedsit | UK | ✓ | PWID | ✓ | ✓ | Hepatitis | Initially diagnosed in hospital for HIV related condition. Self discharged & later self referred through A & E and readmitted to hospital | |
ID16 | Hostel | UK | PWID | ✓ | Hostel workers took him to A & E | ||||
ID17 | B & B | Somalia | No GP, self referred through A & E |