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 – examples of good local practice
Inclusion Health
April 2014

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Identifying key vulnerable groups in data collections

"Our report, Hidden Needs, is about making the invisible visible. It demonstrates the yawning gaps in data, information analysis and research in four of the most vulnerable populations in society." 

Hidden needs: Identifying key vulnerable groups in data collections: Vulnerable migrants, gypsies and travellers, homeless people, and sex workers 
PJ Aspinall
Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent
March 2014

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Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health Service Standards for Commissioners and Service Providers

"The purpose of this document is to set clear minimum standards for planning, commissioning and providing health care for homeless people and other multiply excluded groups."

The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health Service Standards for Commissioners and Service Providers (version 2)
Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health
January 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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