GP Guide - Migrants' Health

posted: 26/01/2011

The Migrant Health Guide is a free new online “one stop information shop” for GPs and practice nurses who are working with migrants.

It comes from the Health Protection Agency who have produced it because migrants health needs are often more complex than for other people. HIV is included.

The online guide gives doctors and nurses easy access to the facts, so they can improve their patients’ care and quality of life.
 

Although most migrants to the UK are healthy, TB and HIV and other conditions are more common.

The guide supports diagnosing and managing a range of typical migrant health conditions. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment of HIV and other conditions is important for the health of the individual and to reduce onward transmission.
 

Produced by experts working with primary care practitioners, it comes with the blessings of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Nursing.

Key Recommendations

• Know your local migrant population and their rights to care
• Teach patients how the NHS works
• Assess new patients using the checklist and their country page
• Vaccinate and immunise as normal
• Watch and test for infectious diseases and conditions typical of their country
• Check and advise on any plans to visit friends and relatives abroad.

 

The Migrant Health Guide has

• detailed information for each country
• tools for assessing migrant patients – new patients, patients with symptoms, identifying more vulnerable patients
• how to talking about the NHS with migrants – explaining it, migrants rights to treatment, languages and interpreters, cultural awareness
• sections about migrant health conditions (including HIV), infectious diseases, vaccinations

Migrant Health Guide

 

HIV in Primary Care : The best HIV guide for GPs and primary care is (free download) HIV for non-specialists, by MedFash.

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