The Home Office have recently started contacting asylum seekers and asking them to sign a consent form that would give the Home Office access to their personal medical records. The form and accompanying letter asks for the individual asylum seeker to sign and give consent for their doctor to disclose details…
Changes to Accessing Healthcare – Impact on Refugees & Asylum-Seekers
Freedom From Torture has launched a campaign action, asking MPs to call for a Home Affairs Committee inquiry into handling of…
In light of ongoing concerns around the data-sharing agreement between the Home Office and NHS Digital, a number of agencies are considering legal action to challenge the practice. They are looking for an individual or organisation who objects to the practice and preferably, someone who has been directly impacted by…
Doctors of the World has just launched its #StopSharing campaign calling on the UK government to stop using NHS patients’…
The Department of Health has published their response to the consultation on extending charging for overseas visitors to wider areas of the NHS. The consultation has resulted in the Department setting their aim "to not only extend charging into other areas of healthcare but to ensure that information on a person's…
This new leaflet produced by the NHS is a guide on how to register with a GP for refugees and…
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between NHS Digital (formerly HSCIC), the Department of Health (DoH) and the Home Office, makes clear that NHS Digital is required by law to hand over non-clinical patient details to the Home Office, including last known addresses, dates of birth, GP’s details and the date registered…
Doctors of the World – new training programmes for health professionals to meet needs of refugees and unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
Coventry University and City of Sanctuary collaborated with organisations from across the country, including Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust…
Doctors of the World operate a national helpline which can advise the public or professionals on any access to healthcare or charging for healthcare concern.
In the Queen’s speech, the Government announced that it would introduce the NHS (Overseas Visitors Charging) Bill.
“No decision about me, without me” is an admirable slogan of the NHS but does it apply to asylum seekers…
The City of Sanctuary Health stream provides a forum for asylum seekers and refugees to have a voice, to share their experiences and for these to be used to influence health research, policy and practice. We want to ensure that the Department of Health's slogan " No decision about me, without…
York St Health Practice and Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME) are the first GP practice and medical institute to receive…
The aim of the research, was to identify, by working with GYROS in Great Yarmouth, KLARS in Kings Lynn and Keystone in Thetford, whether there are cultural or practical barriers experienced by Norfolk’s migrant worker communities when accessing GP and acute health services in Norfolk. The report concludes that such…
The Faculty of Health Studies at the University of Bradford has received a Sanctuary in Health award for its work…
Immigration Health Surcharge