Introduction to the National Health Service - Multilingual fact sheet
This fact sheet has been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. It covers issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services. Although targeted at asylum seekers, the fact sheets are useful to any new arrival.
Space has been left for health teams to add their contact details, and those of local out-of-hours 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.
The leaflet is available in English, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chechen, Chinese (Traditional - Cantonese), Chinese (Simplified - Mandarin), Croatian, Dari, Farsi, French, Gujerati, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Kinyarwanda, Kirmanji, Korean, Kurdish, Lingala, Lithuanian, Malay, Mongolian, Ndebele, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Sorani, Spanish, Swahili, Tigrinian, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba.
For further information please visit Introduction to the National Health Service - Multilingual fact sheet.