GPs must speak out against plans to charge migrants
Charging migrants is unethical, and would cost taxpayers more than it would save. I remember trying to talk to a teenager from Afghanistan whose family were killed in front of him and who had been...
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The introduction of a new NHS charging system has been on the cards since the release of a joint public consultation on NHS charging in England by the Department of Health and the Home Office last...
View ArticleDetained: Women asylum seekers locked up in the UK
In 2012, 6,071 women came to the UK seeking asylum in their own right and 1,902 women who had sought asylum were detained. For this report, Women for Refugee Women talked to 46 women who had sought...
View ArticleVisitor & Migrant NHS Cost Recovery Programme
Extracts from the Implementation Plan 2014–16 The programme is subdivided into four main phases of work, these are: Phase 1: Improving the existing systems Phase 2: Aiding better identification of...
View ArticleImmigration health charge
This updated briefing: comments on the decision, announced by the Department of Health in February 2015, to defer proposals to extend the overall NHS charging regime; comments on the introduction of...
View ArticlePregnant Mothers in Immigration Detention
Over the last two years I have been part of a small team of maternity professionals contacting and visiting pregnant women who were being held in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre in Bedford. We...
View ArticleWhat has the Immigration Bill got to do with public health?
Lewisham Council supports World AIDS Day on the 1st December 2015. It is an opportunity to show support for people living with HIV, remember those who have lost their lives because of HIV and learn the...
View ArticleIs this Europe?
Refugees in Calais speak of desperate conditions As the sun sets on Calais, a new barbed wire fence glints in the evening light, casting a shadow over the growing migrant camp known as the “New...
View ArticleImmigration may reduce the time you wait to see the doctor
Migrants’ free access to the NHS and the perceived health care costs associated with it have generated much debate in the UK and even resulted in the introduction of a fee for certain non-EU citizens....
View ArticleIgnore Liam Fox’s shameful migrant workers claim
The Tories must not use Brexit to harm the NHS Our national health service relies on the skills and dedication of workers from all over the world. If you have ever been treated for an injury, have had...
View ArticleGPs must speak out against plans to charge migrants
Charging migrants is unethical, and would cost taxpayers more than it would save. I remember trying to talk to a teenager from Afghanistan whose family were killed in front of him and who had been...
View ArticleImmigration Act 2014: what next for migrants’ access to NHS care?
The introduction of a new NHS charging system has been on the cards since the release of a joint public consultation on NHS charging in England by the Department of Health and the Home Office last...
View ArticleDetained: Women asylum seekers locked up in the UK
In 2012, 6,071 women came to the UK seeking asylum in their own right and 1,902 women who had sought asylum were detained. For this report, Women for Refugee Women talked to 46 women who had sought...
View ArticleVisitor & Migrant NHS Cost Recovery Programme
Extracts from the Implementation Plan 2014–16 The programme is subdivided into four main phases of work, these are: Phase 1: Improving the existing systems Phase 2: Aiding better identification of...
View ArticleImmigration health charge
This updated briefing: comments on the decision, announced by the Department of Health in February 2015, to defer proposals to extend the overall NHS charging regime; comments on the introduction of...
View ArticlePregnant Mothers in Immigration Detention
Over the last two years I have been part of a small team of maternity professionals contacting and visiting pregnant women who were being held in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre in Bedford. We...
View ArticleWhat has the Immigration Bill got to do with public health?
Lewisham Council supports World AIDS Day on the 1st December 2015. It is an opportunity to show support for people living with HIV, remember those who have lost their lives because of HIV and learn the...
View ArticleIs this Europe?
Refugees in Calais speak of desperate conditions As the sun sets on Calais, a new barbed wire fence glints in the evening light, casting a shadow over the growing migrant camp known as the “New...
View ArticleImmigration may reduce the time you wait to see the doctor
Migrants’ free access to the NHS and the perceived health care costs associated with it have generated much debate in the UK and even resulted in the introduction of a fee for certain non-EU citizens....
View ArticleIgnore Liam Fox’s shameful migrant workers claim
The Tories must not use Brexit to harm the NHS Our national health service relies on the skills and dedication of workers from all over the world. If you have ever been treated for an injury, have had...
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