Safe Hospital Programme

Nurse Champions for people seeking sanctuary

Leading the Safe Hospital Programme for people seeking sanctuary

Join the movement. Become a Nurse or Healthcare Champion.

A values-driven network of nurses and healthcare professionals transforming hospital care for:

• people seeking sanctuary,
• refugees,
• migrants.

Our mission

• Promote safe admissions and discharges.
• Embed trauma-informed, culturally safe, rights-based care.
• Build trust through continuity of care.

What we do

• Equip Champions to lead safe, ethical hospital care.
• Co-design accountable discharge protocols.
• Strengthen links with community services.
• Enable access to GPs, housing, social & mental healthcare.
• Share knowledge rooted in lived experience & research.
• Build peer support to protect staff wellbeing.

Project partners

• Liverpool John Moores University – School of Nursing & Advanced Practice.
• Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT).
• Doctors of the World UK – International Humanitarian Charity.

Funding and support

Supported by Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) with major contributions from:

• LJMU – Leadership and coordination,
• LUHFT – Two project co-ordinators,
• Doctors of the World UK – staff support, training & network hosting.

Why this matters

• Unsafe discharges, language barriers & discrimination put lives at risk.
• Gaps in care fuel readmissions & poor health outcomes.
• Trauma-informed care is still not the norm.
• Frontline staff face burnout & moral distress
• This initiative addresses urgent policy, ethical & humanitarian challenges.

For more information email the Champions for Hospital Access, Nursing, Care and Equity (CHANCE) team.

Be a Nurse or Healthcare Champion. Lead the change.

Training programme for Nurse Champions or Healthcare Champions

Day 1

• Immigration system and healthcare access.
• UK asylum system and health impacts.
• Entitlement to primary care and barriers.
• Secondary care access and advocacy case studies.

Day 2

• Discharge and advocacy.
• Supporting destitute patients – housing and discharge planning.
• Healthcare professionals as advocates – building confidence and driving change locally/nationally.

Please note:
That the handout for the above sessions is available exclusively to Nurse Champions.

This is because the training materials reference and integrate a wide range of national and international policies, guidelines, and evidence-based frameworks that are tailored to the Nurse Champions Programme. Sharing them more widely without the full training context could lead to misinterpretation, loss of critical nuance, and reduced impact.

To ensure safe and accurate application of the content, we restrict access to trained Nurse Champions, who are supported to interpret and apply the material appropriately in practice.

If your organisation would like to access this training, or explore tailored sessions for your staff, please email the CHANCE team.