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Sleeping rough during Covid-19 and beyond: a public health emergency? Paul Atherton FRSA features in new King’s Fund podcast


Reported by Paul

Published on Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

Covid 19 Emergency Accommodation
Audio Stories

Sleeping rough during Covid-19 and beyond: a public health emergency? Paul Atherton FRSA features in new King’s Fund podcast


Written by Paul

Published on Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

Covid 19

Emergency Accommodation

What can the NHS do to meet the health needs of people sleeping rough? What was the inside story of the Everyone In initiative during Covid-19? And will the government end rough sleeping by 2024?

In the latest The King’s Fund podcast, Paul sits down with Helen McKenna, Dame Louise Casey, recent Chair of the Prime Minister’s Rough Sleeping Taskforce and Dr Caroline Shulman, a GP working in inclusion health, to share his lived experience of homelessness.

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Written by Paul


Paul Atherton FRSA is a social campaigning film-maker, playwrightauthor & artist. His work has been screened on the Coca-Cola Billboard on Piccadilly Circus, premiered at the Leicester Square Odeon Cinema, his video-diary has been collected into the permanent collection of the Museum of London, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was selected as one of the London Library's 2021/22 emerging writers during covid lockdown, where he is currently writing his memoir.

He achieved most of this whilst homeless, an ongoing experience that has been his life for over a decade in London. In the last two years he’s made Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 his bedroom and became part of what he coined the #HeathrowHomeless before being moved into emergency hotel accommodation for the duration of Covid-Lockdown in Marylebone on 3rd April 2020.

In the past ten years he’s experienced every homeless initiative that Charities, Local Authorities and the City has had to offer. All of which clearly failed.

With the end of “Everyone In”, Paul has no idea where his next move is going to be, but he expects he’ll be returning to Heathrow.

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