These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency 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. Open the leaflets in one of the following languages

 

 English

Urdu

 Albanian

Hindi

 Arabic

Lithuanian

 Bulgarian

 Polish

 Chinese (Cantonese) 

Portuguese

 Chinese (Mandarin)

 Spanish

 Russian

 French

 Turkish 

Punjabi

 Gujerati

 Somali

 Croatian 

Bengali

 Farsi

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