Key Recommendations
- Know your local population and their entitlements to care and educate patients about the NHS system.
- Assess new patients' likely health needs using the checklist provided and by reference to the country specific pages.
- Update immunisations according to the UK schedule.
- Be alert to the possibility of infectious diseases and other health concerns in migrants from at risk countries and test as appropriate.
- Opportunistically ask patients about any plans to visit friends and relatives in their family country of origin, and offer appropriate advice.
Assessing Migrant Patients
Migrants and the NHS
Health Topics
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