Migrant Health in North East England

North East England is the smallest and least culturally and ethnically diverse of the nine English regions. Between 1999 and 2008 it received more than ten thousand asylum seekers, several thousand migrant workers and growing numbers of overseas students. The North East Public Health Observatory (NEPHO) produced reports on migrant health in 2002 and 2008..

In the light of the increasing range of migrant groups and following NHS changes, this report updates the 2008 report and describes who the North Eastt^TMs new arrivals are, the numbers that are currently arriving, the areas in which they are living and the regional infrastructure to support them. It considers their health needs, current service provision and the potential effect of changes to commissioning arrangements. Migrant people are a very heterogeneous group and can be classified in many different ways. For example: nationality, country of origin (which might be country of birth or last resident) ethnicity, language or religion. An important further classification is the legal status of the migrant. This includes: asylum seeker, refugee, trafficked person, migrants from Europe (especially the new EU accession states), migrants from outside Europe (e.g. the highly skilled migrants programme), undocumented migrants and students..

While each person needs to be treated as an individual, these classifications may help give some assessment of likely needs to assist planning. We describe below how commissioners and providers are starting to meet the challenges of migrant health in the North East, despite the paucity of information..

• North East Data
• Migrant Health

• Migrant
• Refugee