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An improved Primary Care offer would be available to individuals who were homeless or rough sleeping from 8 December 2021 via the weekly visits of the Change Please health and wellbeing bus.  This new provision would provide access to a General Practitioner and/or a Prescribing nurse as well as other health-related services for a period of 30 months and would overlap with the existing Doctors of the World provision which would cease on 31 March 2022.  The Government had recently announced plans to increase support for individuals with substance misuse issues, and the Committee requested the Pan-London Commissioning Team for drug and alcohol services for rough sleepers be invited to speak to a future meeting of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Sub-Committee.