Good practice in emergency care: views from practitioners; Chapter fourteen

Abstract

Introduction. Health services across Europe are faced with the increasing challenge of delivering accessible, appropriate and effective care for migrants. Some service providers already have a long tradition of delivering health care to migrants, particularly in large cities such as London and Paris. Elsewhere, as in central and eastern Europe, immigration on a substantial scale is a much more recent phenomenon and health services have only recently begun to see significant numbers of migrants as patients. Available evidence on how services across Europe treat migrants, what problems health workers regard as most important and what solutions have been found has mainly been anecdotal, with no systematic research basis. [...].