PATIENTS NOT PASSPORTS: Migrants Access to Healthcare During the Coronavirus Crisis | June 2020
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all those who contributed to this report, in particular those who took time
to share their insights and experiences of access to healthcare in the UK.
We would like to thank Jessica Baker (Oasis Cardiff), Jon Beech (Leeds Asylum Seekers’ Support
Network), Marissa Begonia (Voice of Domestic Workers), Kush Chottera (Europia), Jane Hunt
(Helen Bamber Foundation), Ameera Jamil (Karma Nirvana), Piotr Kuhiwczak (One Roof Leicester),
Loraine Masiya Mponela (Coventry Asylum and Refugee Action Group), Rose McCarthy (Health
Access for Refugees Programme at the Refugee Council), Dudzile Moyo (JCWI), Sheila Mushunje,
Oliver New (Ealing Save Our NHS), Daniel Robertson (Nottingham & Notts Refugee Forum), the
Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants, English for Action, We Belong, and the many other
individuals and organisations who provided invaluable information for this report, but wish to
remain anonymous.
Whilst this report highlights many negative experiences of migrants, there are thousands of
positive experiences of migrants accessing healthcare around the country, and a separate report
could be written on the efforts of NHS workers and bodies to facilitate such care despite the
barriers thrown up in their path. Indeed, there are many migrants who owe their lives to the NHS
and who are quietly carried through the system by the NHS employees who refuse to abide the
unjust structures into which they are being coerced. These remarkable efforts, which will likely
never be publicly known, represent the best of what the NHS stands for and will one day be spoken
of with pride. This report is dedicated to them.
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