Launching Care+Her: advancing equity in homeless women’s health We’re proud to announce the official launch of Care+Her: Clinical Action in Research for Equity in Homeless Women’s Health—a groundbreaking 12-month collaboration with the Burdett Trust for Nursing, University of Southampton, CHRP, Outcome Home, and Queen’s Nursing Fellow Sam Dorney-Smith. Based across [...]
The Hedley Foundation awards a capital grant for essential resources HealthBus Trust is delighted to thank The Hedley Foundation for a £2,600 capital grant to purchase Wi-Fi routers and a defibrillator (AED) for our outreach work across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. These items are essential. Reliable Wi-Fi keeps our clinical [...]
HealthBus on Community Connect July 2025 On 21 July, Deano and Jordan from HealthBus joined Kevin on Dorset Coast Radio’s Community Connect—an inspiring chance to spotlight our nurse-led healthcare for people experiencing homelessness across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. We’re thrilled this won’t be a one-off: we’ll be back regularly to [...]
Dentaid supports HealthBus patients' access oral healthcare On 03 July 2025, Dentaid and HealthBus Trust reunited in Bournemouth to deliver free dental care for rough sleepers and people experiencing homelessness. Funded by NHS Dorset, the outreach forms part of the new Oral Bridge project, an innovative programme designed to improve [...]
Canford Renewable Energy raises money for HealthBus A huge thank you to Nathan, the team and clients at Canford Renewable Energy for raising an incredible £1,130 for HealthBus at their Golf Day at Remedy Oak on 01 July 2025. Your generosity directly supports specialist healthcare for people experiencing homelessness across [...]
HealthBus joins UoS CHRP Annual Conference to strengthen collaboration in homeless healthcare On 19 June 2025, HealthBus attended the Centre for Homelessness Research and Practice (CHRP) Annual Conference in London, convened by the University of Southampton (UoS). The event brought together leaders from across the homelessness sector to share best [...]
Sam Whittle Wins Diabetes Nursing Award for Innovation We are thrilled to celebrate Sam Whittle, Specialist Diabetes Nurse from Bournemouth Hospital and HealthBus, who has won the prestigious Diabetes Nursing Award for Innovation at diabetesnursingawards.co.uk. Sam has been recognised for her pioneering work delivering specialist diabetes care to people experiencing [...]
BAHA and Local Hotels Spread Summer Kindness with ‘Bags of Sunshine’ We are incredibly grateful to the Bournemouth Area Hotel Association (BAHA) for their generous support of our Bags of Sunshine campaign this summer. Over the past few months, six hotels across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole have been collecting essential [...]
BU Media Students Challenge Homelessness Bias with Powerful Campaign On 15 May 2025, the BU Client Brief project came to a close with an inspiring final presentation. Deano and Jordan from HealthBus had the pleasure of attending as Bournemouth University’s 2nd Year Media Students unveiled their thought-provoking campaign aimed at [...]
Ringwood Tangent Group Supports HealthBus with Generous Donation On 14 May, our dedicated volunteer Gail gave an inspiring presentation about the work of HealthBus Trust to the Ladies of the Ringwood Tangent Group. The group invited Gail to share more about our mobile healthcare service for people experiencing homelessness, wanting [...]
