Our Common Ambition is to improve homeless healthcare by collaboratively lifting the voices of people with lived experience.

We bring together people with lived experience of homelessness, frontline providers, and commissioners through co-production within homeless health services. We want to improve health services and outcomes for people experiencing homelessness in Brighton & Hove.

Our Achievements

Developed group processes, including our trauma-informed approach.
Developed group processes, including our trauma-informed approach.
Created homeless healthcare system and housing pathway maps.
Created homeless healthcare system and housing pathway maps.
Co-developed a new method for analysis of feedback.
Co-developed a new method for analysis of feedback.
Identified challenge areas within the homeless healthcare system.
Identified challenge areas within the homeless healthcare system.
Co-designed a prototype to address challenges accessing services.
Co-designed a prototype to address challenges accessing services.
Developed toolbox resources to share our processes.
Developed toolbox resources to share our processes.
Produced a social media campaign for World Homeless Day 2022.
Produced a social media campaign for World Homeless Day 2022.
Co-produced events to share learnings, including with MPs.
Co-produced events to share learnings, including with MPs.
Co-designed a training course for medical students.
Co-designed a training course for medical students.

Latest News

Coproducing medical student training
22 August 2023
At the end of 2022, BHCA worked with Dr Kate Pitt at Arch Healthcare CIC to coproduce a new Student Select Component (SSC) for the Brighton and Hove Medical School called Homelessness and Health.
‘Building community with Common Ambition’
5 June 2023
Emma Anderson (University of Brighton) published an article in BPS Psychologist Magazine which spotlights BHCA as an example of good practice of coproduction, and argues the importance of lived experience involvement in a community psychology context.
Launching Our New Website
19 May 2023
On the 25th April Brighton and Hove Common Ambition launched its new website. The Steering Group co-produced a presentation for the launch event. This blog details why and how this website was co-produced.