Enabling better access to primary care for vulnerable populations

"This short report focuses on models of primary care that are designed to promote registration with and access to good primary and continuing care on an equitable basis."

Promising practice: enabling better access to primary care for vulnerable populations
Department of Health
April 2014

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Inclusive practice

"The National Inclusion Health Board’s Data and Research Working Group identified the need for a literature review that encompasses, with respect to the 4 vulnerable groups (asylum seekers/refugees, Gypsies/Irish Travellers, people who are homeless, and sex workers): 
a) Interventions (or service models) that improve access to/registration in primary care; 
b) Interventions which have been shown to reduce the risk of inappropriate admission/readmission to hospital."

Inclusive practice: vulnerable migrants, gypsies and travellers, people who are homeless, and sex workers: a review and synthesis of interventions/service models that improve access to primary care and reduce risk of avoidable admission to hospital
PJ Aspinall
University of Kent
February 2014

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Health and homelessness

"This report is based on consultation with six services providing health care to homeless people, 17 case studies showing the range of presenting health issues and use of health services by homeless people, and analysis of five case studies illustrating the financial impact of this pattern of service use."

Health and homelessness: understanding the costs and role of primary care services for homeless people
St Mungo's
July 2013

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