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A Guide to the NHS
For Asylum Seekers in the UK
 
Produced in Leeds in 2004 by
Black Health Initiative, Yorkshire MESMAC, Health Access Team, NHS Sexual Health & Substance
Use Team (Leeds PCT’s)
 

 

This resource has been developed to assist staff to enable Asylum Seekers to access translated information on health services in England. 

 

We have produced National Guides, which are universal to NHS services throughout the  UK, and also Regional Guides specific to NHS services in the Leeds area only. The NHS Guides cover the following sections :

 

 

The NHS - What is it?
Confidentiality
Interpreters in the NHS
Complaints or problems

Emergency Health Services
Accident & Emergency Deptments

GP/ Doctors Surgeries
Registering with a GP
GP/Family Doctors
Practice Nurses

 


Making an appointment
Accessing Interpreters
Changing GP Surgeries

NHS Direct
Accessing Interpreters

Other Health Services

 


Health Access Team
Health Assessments
Tuberculosis (TB) Screening

Hospitals
Hospitals in Leeds

Pharmacies

 


Late Night Pharmacies in Leeds

Dentists
Emergency Dental Services in Leeds

Opticians - What do they do?

Contraception

Mental Health

 


Sexual Health
Sexual Health Clinics

Women’s Health Services

 


Pregnancy
Abortion
Cervical Cancer Screening
Female Circumcision

Children’s Health Services
Health Visitors
School Nurses
Children’s Immunisations

 



Further Information on Sexual Health
STI’s
HIV
The Law and Sexual Relationships
Sexual Health Clinics

 

 

Sexual Health Support & Advocacy Groups

Other Support Services

 
You are free to download and print the guides below.  We recommend you laminate the pages and create a booklet that can be left in your waiting area, or which can be handed to your service users to read through.  Each guide contains approximately 30-40 pages and is saved as a PDF file.  To view PDF files on your PC you many need to download software, BHI reccommends Adobe Reader which is free of charge:  http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/reader/
 
Please be aware that recent changes in entitlement to free NHS Services means that anyone in the UK without documentation, long stay visitors and anyone refused asylum or leave to remain (on final appeal, but not removed from the UK ), will be liable to be charged for any NHS services other than those provided by A&E departments or those outlined in the 1989 exemptions.
 

For further information about NHS entitlement for Asylum Seekers please contact :

 

Refugee Council                                                                                0113 2449404

Health Access Team                                                                         0113 2952740

HIV, Sexual Health & Substance Team,

Leeds Social Services                                                                      0113 2478670

 

Please note:  We have had many telephone requests for leaflets in other languages, unfortunately this is not a service BHI currently provides.  Hopefully the information you are seeking can be found in the booklets.
 
LANGUAGES
 
ENGLISH GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES:
AMHARIC GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES:
ARABIC GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES:
DARI GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES:
FARSI GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES: 
FRENCH GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES:
KURSDISH GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES: 
LINGALA GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES:
PORTUGESE GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES: 
PASTHO GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES:
SHONA GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES: 
SOMALI GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES:
SWAHILI GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES: 
TIGREAN GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES:
URDU GUIDE TO NHS SERVICES: