These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.
Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups. Our fully qualified Clinicians and Staff have been given access to an interpretation service and we use ‘The Big Word’ to assist us in communicating with our pateints where need be this enables us to triage and signpost the needs of our patients correctly.
Open the leaflets in one of the following languages:
