Health and wellbeing

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Structural Vulnerabilities, Resilience and Migrant Communities-led responses to COVID-19 in West Yorkshire

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Structural Vulnerabilities, Resilience and Migrant Communities-led responses to COVID-19 in West Yorkshire

The Racial Justice Network share experiences of community advocates, having been impressed with how diaspora communities responded to the pandemic despite facing a myriad of barriers and challenges.

Barriers to Wellbeing - report into unmet healthcare in migrant communities

Barriers to Wellbeing - report into unmet healthcare in migrant communities

A report by the University of Birmingham using DOTW’s anonymised service users’ requests explains that, at the height of the first wave of the pandemic, there were significant unmet healthcare needs amongst migrants with insecure immigration status.

Translated: Covid vaccine information for people without an NHS number

Translated: Covid vaccine information for people without an NHS number

NHSEI guidance letter to help those without an NHS number to get a Covid-19 vaccine and register with a GP.

Translated: Animations demonstrating how to register with a GP and book an appointment

Translated: Animations demonstrating how to register with a GP and book an appointment

Doctors of the World, in partnership with the British Red Cross, has produced motion graphic videos with key information on how to register with a GP and book a COVID-19 vaccine

New Handbook of Refugee Health published

This new handbook helps to recognize the rights of refugees and provides a framework to identify and approach health needs, from basic elements like service mapping and initial interventions to more complex elements of ongoing healthcare and support and broader topics such as migration public health, migration policy and health systems.

Key Features:

  • Bridges the gap between existing academic literature on refugee health and guidelines for health management in humanitarian emergencies.

  • Helps to develop an integrated approach to healthcare provision, allowing healthcare professionals and humanitarians to adapt their specialist knowledge for use in forced migration contexts and with refugees.

  • Recognizes the complex and interconnected needs in displacement scenarios and identifies holistic and systems-based approaches.

  • Covers public health theory, applied public health and clinical aspects of forced migration.


Translated: How the NHS COVID-19 app works

Translated: How the NHS COVID-19 app works

NHS has created resources in different languages explaining how the NHS COVID-19 app works.