Last Updated: Thursday, 10 August 2023

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
Cantonese	Portuguese
Mandarin	Spanish
Russian	Punjabi
Turkish	Punjabi
Gujerati	Somali
Croatian	Bengali
Farsi