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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Improving access to health care for Gypsies and Travellers, homeless people and sex workers

"This guide aims to provide professionals with the following:

• an overview of the health needs of these three vulnerable groups in society
• practical support to help commissioners to build the understanding of local needs into the Joint
• Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and Health and Wellbeing Strategies (HWBS)
• sample models of how services can meet needs to inform commissioning and local service
• provision, looking at both health-only and more holistic initiatives"

Improving access to health care for Gypsies and Travellers, homeless people and sex workers
P Gill, U MacLeod, H Lester, A Hegenbarth
Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Innovation and Research Centre
September 2013

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